U+AAA1 "ꪡ" Tai Viet Letter High Fo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AAA1 "ꪡ" Tai Viet Letter High Fo is a character used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write several Tai languages, including Tai Dam, Tai Don, Thai Song, and others in regions of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and China. This specific letter represents a high-register consonant sound, akin to the English "f" or "ph," but with a distinct tonal quality dictated by its classification as a high consonant in the Tai Viet orthography. It forms part of the script's systematic arrangement of letters, where each consonant belongs to either a high, low, or middle tonal group, influencing the pronunciation of the syllable. The character is encoded in the Unicode Tai Viet block, enabling digital representation and text processing for these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+AAA1
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter High Fo
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪡ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪡ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAAA1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AAA1
C/C++/Java Escape \uaaa1

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