U+AA91 "ꪑ" Tai Viet Letter High Nyo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AA91 "ꪑ" Tai Viet Letter High Nyo is a glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write the Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and other Tai languages of Southeast Asia. This specific letter represents a high tone version of the "nyo" consonant sound, similar to the palatal nasal /ɲ/ found in English words like "canyon," and is distinguished from its low tone counterpart within the script's tonal orthography. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Tai Viet block, which was added in version 5.2 to support the digital preservation and modern communication of these endangered Tai languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+AA91
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter High Nyo
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪑ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪑ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAA91
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AA91
C/C++/Java Escape \uaa91

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