U+AA8B "ꪋ" Tai Viet Letter High Co Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪋ
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 |