U+AAB9 "ꪹ" Tai Viet Vowel Uea Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AAB9 "ꪹ" Tai Viet Vowel Uea is a character used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed for writing several Tai languages, including Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Thai Song. This specific vowel glyph represents the sound "uea," a complex vowel phoneme typical in these languages, and it functions as a dependent vowel sign that is visually positioned to the left of its consonant base character. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard at version 5.2 ensures that digital text in Tai languages can be accurately represented and processed, supporting the preservation and modern communication of these linguistic traditions.

General Properties

Code Point U+AAB9
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Viet Vowel Uea
Block Tai Viet
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪹ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAAB9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AAB9
C/C++/Java Escape \uaab9

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 Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Visual Order Left
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Logical Order Exception Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter