U+AAA9 "ꪩ" Tai Viet Letter High Lo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪩ
U+AAA9 "ꪩ" Tai Viet Letter High Lo is a glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write languages such as Tai Dam and Tai Don spoken primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and parts of China. This specific character represents the high-register consonant "lo" (pronounced like the English letter L) and is part of a writing system that distinguishes between high and low tone classes to convey tonal distinctions. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Tai Viet block, allowing for digital representation and communication of these historically rich, tone-based languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAA9 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Letter High Lo |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaaa9 |