U+AABC "ꪼ" Tai Viet Vowel Ay Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AABC "ꪼ" Tai Viet Vowel Ay is a glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed to write languages such as Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Thai Song, primarily spoken by communities in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a specific vowel sound, typically transliterated as "ay" or "ai," and functions as an independent vowel letter that can combine with consonants to form syllables. Its design reflects the traditional calligraphic style of the Tai Viet writing system, which is distinct from the more widely known Thai script and has been encoded in Unicode to support digital preservation and communication for these endangered languages.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꪼ
HTML Hex Encoding ꪼ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAA 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAABC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AABC
C/C++/Java Escape \uaabc

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