U+AAA3 "ꪣ" Tai Viet Letter High Mo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AAA3 "ꪣ" Tai Viet Letter High Mo is a glyph from the Tai Viet script, used primarily for writing the Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Thai Song languages spoken by communities in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character represents a high-register consonant sound similar to the English "m," and its "high" designation indicates that it belongs to a tone class that affects the pitch and pronunciation of syllables in these tonal languages. The Tai Viet script, encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital communication, preserves a unique writing tradition that differs from the more widely known Thai or Lao scripts, and "ꪣ" appears in various historical and modern texts including folk tales, poetry, and everyday correspondence.

General Properties

Code Point U+AAA3
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter High Mo
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪣ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪣ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAAA3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AAA3
C/C++/Java Escape \uaaa3

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