U+AAA8 "ꪨ" Tai Viet Letter Low Lo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪨ
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 |