U+AAB4 "ꪴ" Tai Viet Vowel U Unicode Character

U+AAB4 "ꪴ" Tai Viet Vowel U is a vowel symbol used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write several Tai languages, including Tai Dam and Tai Don, primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents the vowel sound /u/ and is written as a combined mark that attaches to a consonant in the Tai Viet writing system, functioning similarly to a diacritic. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Tai Viet block to support digital text representation and preservation of these languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+AAB4
Version Added	5.2
Name	Tai Viet Vowel U
Block	Tai Viet
General Category	Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class	Below
Bidirectional Class	Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ꪴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ꪴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEA 0xAA 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xAAB4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000AAB4
C/C++/Java Escape	\uaab4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Tai Viet
Script Extensions	Tai Viet
Indic Syllabic Category	Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category	Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Other Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend