U+AA90 "ꪐ" Tai Viet Letter Low Nyo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AA90 "ꪐ" Tai Viet Letter Low Nyo is a specific glyph from the Tai Viet script, which is used to write languages like Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Tai Daeng primarily in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China. This character represents a voiced palatal nasal sound, similar to the "ny" in the English word "canyon," and is classified as a low tone consonant within the script's tonal system, influencing the pitch of the following vowel. The Tai Viet script is historically significant for preserving the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Tai peoples, and this letter is part of a set of characters encoded in Unicode to enable digital communication and text processing for these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+AA90
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter Low Nyo
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪐ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪐ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAA90
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AA90
C/C++/Java Escape \uaa90

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