U+AABE "ꪾ" Tai Viet Vowel Am Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪾ
U+AABE "ꪾ" Tai Viet Vowel Am is a combining mark used in the Tai Viet script, which is traditionally employed for writing languages such as Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and Thai Song in Southeast Asia. This character represents a vowel sound similar to the "am" or "ăm" pronunciation, typically modifying the preceding consonant to indicate a nasalized or closed vowel-combination ending in /m/. It is designed to be placed above or attached to a consonant character in the complex, stacked layout of Tai Viet text, ensuring proper rendering for literacy and digital communication in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AABE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Vowel Am |
| 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAABE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AABE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaabe |