U+AA9A "ꪚ" Tai Viet Letter Low Bo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AA9A "ꪚ" Tai Viet Letter Low Bo is a glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write several Tai languages including Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Thai Song. This specific character represents a low tone consonant sound corresponding to the letter "b" in the writing system, and its appearance is notable for its rounded, hook like shape, which distinguishes it from the high tone variant. As part of the Unicode standard, it was encoded in 2008 to support the digital preservation and typing of these under documented Southeast Asian languages, aiding in linguistic studies and cultural heritage efforts online.

General Properties

Code Point U+AA9A
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter Low Bo
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪚ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪚ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAA9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AA9A
C/C++/Java Escape \uaa9a

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