U+AA9F "ꪟ" Tai Viet Letter High Pho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪟ
U+AA9F "ꪟ" Tai Viet Letter High Pho is a symbol 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 high tone consonant sound approximating "ph," akin to the English "p" with an aspirated breath, and is part of a complex system where tone markers and vowel signs combine with consonant letters to accurately represent the tonal and phonetic structure of these languages. Its inclusion in Unicode aids in the digital preservation and modern communication of Tai linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA9F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Letter High Pho |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa9f |