U+AA9E "ꪞ" Tai Viet Letter Low Pho Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AA9E "ꪞ" Tai Viet Letter Low Pho is a glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write several Tai languages, including Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and Thai Song. This specific character represents the low-class consonant sound associated with the phoneme /pʰ/ in these languages, meaning it carries a lower inherent tone according to the script's tonal system, where the letter class influences the pitch contour of a syllable. In text, it appears as a distinctive curved shape that fits within the standard repertoire of Tai Viet typography for encoding historical and modern linguistic records.

General Properties

Code Point U+AA9E
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter Low Pho
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪞ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪞ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAA9E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AA9E
C/C++/Java Escape \uaa9e

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