U+AA8F "ꪏ" Tai Viet Letter High So Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪏ
U+AA8F "ꪏ" Tai Viet Letter High So is a specific glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write several Tai languages, including Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Thai Song. As a high consonant letter, it represents a voiceless alveolar fricative sound similar to the English "s". This character is part of the Tai Viet block in Unicode, encoded to preserve the unique writing traditions of Tai-speaking communities in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. It contributes to the accurate digital representation of these languages, helping to maintain their cultural and linguistic heritage in modern text processing and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA8F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Letter High So |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa8f |