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Glyph for U+0EAB
Source: Noto Sans Lao

U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung

U+0EAB was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0E80 to U+0EFF Lao in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Lao script. The character is also known as ho hay and ho han.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+0EAB behaves as Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian) regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Lao script or Akson Lao (Lao: ອັກສອນລາວ [ʔáksɔ̌ːn láːw]) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos. Its earlier form, the Tai Noi script, was also used to write the Isan language, but was replaced by the Thai script. It has 27 consonants (ພະຍັນຊະນະ [pʰāɲánsānā]), 7 consonantal ligatures (ພະຍັນຊະນະປະສົມ [pʰāɲánsānā pá sǒm]), 33 vowels (ສະຫລະ/ສະຫຼະ [sálá]), and 4 tone marks (ວັນນະຍຸດ [ván nā ɲūt]).

The Lao alphabet was adapted from the Khmer script, which itself was derived from the Pallava script, a variant of the Grantha script descended from the Brāhmī script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. Akson Lao is a sister system to the Thai script, with which it shares many similarities and roots. However, Lao has fewer characters and is formed in a more curvilinear fashion than Thai.

Lao is written from left to right. Vowels can be written above, below, in front of, or behind consonants, with some vowel combinations written before, over, and after. Spaces for separating words and punctuation were traditionally not used, but space is used and functions in place of a comma or period. The letters have no majuscule or minuscule (upper- and lowercase) differentiation.

Representations

System Representation
3755
UTF-8 E0 BA AB
UTF-16 0E AB
UTF-32 00 00 0E AB
URL-Quoted %E0%BA%AB
HTML hex reference ຫ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ຫ
alias ho hay
alias ho han

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Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LAO LETTER HO SUNG
Unicode 1 Name
Block Lao
General Category Other Letter
Script Lao
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Case Folding Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0EAB Lao Letter Ho Sung
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R