U+AAA8 "ꪨ" Tai Viet Letter Low Lo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AAA8 "ꪨ" Tai Viet Letter Low Lo is a specific glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write languages like Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Thai Song spoken primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a low, unaspirated "l" sound, and its classification as a "low" consonant indicates its tonal implications within the syllable structure of these tonal languages. In the Tai Viet writing system, it functions as a base consonant that can combine with various vowel markers and tone marks to form complete words, contributing to the rich orthographic tradition of the Tai peoples.

General Properties

Code Point U+AAA8
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Letter Low Lo
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪨ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAAA8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AAA8
C/C++/Java Escape \uaaa8

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