U+AA8B "ꪋ" Tai Viet Letter High Co Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AA8B "ꪋ" Tai Viet Letter High Co is a specific character used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write the Tai Dam, Tai Daeng, and Tai Don languages spoken primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a high-register consonant sound, corresponding to a voiceless or aspirated "c" or "k" sound, and is an essential component of the Tai Viet writing system's inventory of letters, which distinguishes between high and low consonant classes. As part of the Unicode Standard, it enables the digital representation and preservation of these minority languages, facilitating modern communication and text processing for communities that rely on the Tai Viet script.

General Properties

Code Point U+AA8B
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter High Co
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪋ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAA8B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AA8B
C/C++/Java Escape \uaa8b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Tai Viet
Script Extensions Tai Viet
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter