U+AAA5 "ꪥ" Tai Viet Letter High Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪥ
U+AAA5 "ꪥ" Tai Viet Letter High Yo is a specific glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is primarily employed to write the Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and Tai Daeng languages spoken by various Tai ethnic groups in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a high-register consonant sound, akin to a voiceless or aspirated "y" sound, and it belongs to the set of Tai Viet letters that are systematically encoded to accommodate the tonal and phonetic distinctions of these languages. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text and documents in Tai Viet can be accurately represented and exchanged across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAA5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Letter High Yo |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaaa5 |