U+AAA9 "ꪩ" Tai Viet Letter High Lo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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