U+AA9C "ꪜ" Tai Viet Letter Low Po Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AA9C "ꪜ" Tai Viet Letter Low Po is a specific glyph used in the Tai Viet script to represent the low class consonant sound /p/ in languages like Tai Dam and Tai Don, which are spoken by communities in Vietnam, Laos, and parts of China. This letter is part of the Tai Viet block introduced in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009, and its design distinguishes it from its high class counterpart by a unique visual marker, helping to indicate the tone or phonetic quality of the syllable in which it appears.

General Properties

Code Point U+AA9C
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter Low Po
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪜ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAA9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AA9C
C/C++/Java Escape \uaa9c

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