U+AAA4 "ꪤ" Tai Viet Letter Low Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪤ
U+AAA4 "ꪤ" Tai Viet Letter Low Yo is a character used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed for writing several Tai languages, including Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and Thai Song, primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This specific letter represents a voiced palatal approximant sound, akin to the English "y," and is classified as a low tone class consonant within the script's tonal system, influencing the pronunciation of the syllable it begins. The character is composed of a distinctive curved shape with a loop, visually resembling a simplified "y" or an inverted "h," and it is encoded in Unicode to support the digital preservation and modern communication of these historically significant Southeast Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAA4 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Letter Low Yo |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaaa4 |