U+AAB1 "ꪱ" Tai Viet Vowel Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪱ
U+AAB1 "ꪱ" Tai Viet Vowel Aa is a specific glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write several Tai languages such as Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Thai Song in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a vowel sound similar to a long "aa" and appears as a diacritic mark positioned above a consonant to modify its pronunciation. It is part of the Tai Viet block added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.2, reflecting efforts to digitally preserve and support the writing systems of underrepresented Southeast Asian languages. The character enables accurate text representation and digital communication for these linguistic communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAB1 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Vowel Aa |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaab1 |