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Glyph for U+1A6A
Source: Noto Sans Tai Tham

U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu

U+1A6A was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block U+1A20 to U+1AAF Tai Tham in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Tai Tham script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. In text U+1A6A behaves as Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian) regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Tai Tham script (Tham meaning "scripture") is an abugida writing system used mainly for a group of Southwestern Tai languages i.e., Northern Thai, Tai Lü, Khün and Lao; as well as the liturgical languages of Buddhism i.e., Pali and Sanskrit. It is historically known as Tua Tham (ᨲ᩠ᩅᩫᨵᨾ᩠ᨾ᩼​ or ᨲ᩠ᩅᩫᨵᩢᨾ᩠ᨾ᩼). In Thailand and Myanmar, the script is often referred to as Lanna script (Thai: อักษรธรรมล้านนา RTGS: Akson Tham Lan Na; Burmese: လန်နအက္ခရာ RTGS: Lanna Akara) in relation to the historical kingdom of Lan Na situating in the Northern region of modern day Thailand and a part of Shan state in Myanmar. Local people in Northern Thailand also call the script as Tua Mueang (ᨲ᩠ᩅᩫᨾᩮᩥᩬᨦ, Northern Thai pronunciation: [tǔa̯.mɯ̄a̯ŋ] ) in parallel to Kam Mueang, a local name for Northern Thai language. In Laos and Isan region of Thailand, a variation of Tai Tham script, often dubbed Lao Tham, is also known by the locals as To Tham Lao (Northeastern Thai: โตธรรมลาว /toː˩.tʰam˧˥.laːw˧/, cf. Lao: ໂຕທຳ/ໂຕທັມ BGN/PCGN to tham) or Yuan script. Tai Tham script is traditionally written on a dried palm leaf as a palm-leaf manuscript.

The Northern Thai language is a close relative of (standard) Thai. It is spoken by nearly 6 million people in Northern Thailand and several thousand in Laos of whom few are literate in Lanna script. The script is still read by older monks. Northern Thai has six linguistic tones and Thai only five, making transcription into the Thai alphabet problematic. There is some resurgent interest in the script among younger people, but an added complication is that the modern spoken form, called Kam Muang, differs in pronunciation from the older form.

There are 670,000 speakers of Tai Lü, some of those born before 1950 are literate in Tham, also known as Old Tai Lue. The script has also continued to be taught in the monasteries. The New Tai Lue script is derived from Tham. There are 120,000 speakers of Khün for which Lanna is the only script.

Representations

System Representation
6762
UTF-8 E1 A9 AA
UTF-16 1A 6A
UTF-32 00 00 1A 6A
URL-Quoted %E1%A9%AA
HTML hex reference ᩪ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌ᩪ

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name TAI THAM VOWEL SIGN UU
Unicode 1 Name
Block Tai Tham
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Script Tai Tham
Bidirectional Category Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Case Folding Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
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+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category Bottom
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel_Dependent
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+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
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 Extend
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Extend
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+1A6A Tai Tham Vowel Sign Uu
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R