U+AA8F "ꪏ" Tai Viet Letter High So Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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