U+AAB8 "ꪸ" Tai Viet Vowel Ia Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪸ
U+AAB8 "ꪸ" Tai Viet Vowel Ia is a grapheme used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write the Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Tai Daeng languages spoken primarily in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character represents a vowel sound equivalent to the diphthong "ia" in the Tai language family, typically appearing as a dependent vowel that is written above or to the left of a consonant character in the script's syllabic writing system. As part of the Unicode standard's Tai Viet block, it ensures consistent digital representation and typographic rendering for these historically and culturally significant languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAB8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Vowel Ia |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaab8 |