LAO LETTER THO TAM character

LAO LETTER THO TAM
U+0E97
3735
ທ
ທ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Lao
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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LAO LETTER THO TAM is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of LAO LETTER THO TAM is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Lao block. The Lao block contains characters used in the Lao script, which is used for writing the Lao language, the official language of Laos. Like the Thai script, the Lao script is an abugida and a tonal language. This block includes characters for consonants, vowels, numerals, and tone marks. The Lao script evolved from the Old Khmer script, and although it shares similarities with the Thai script, it has distinct features and letter shapes. The script is central to the cultural and literary expression of the Lao people and is used in all forms of communication..