TAI THAM LETTER LA character

TAI THAM LETTER LA
U+1A43
6723
ᩃ
ᩃ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Tai Tham
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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TAI THAM LETTER LA is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of TAI THAM LETTER LA 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 Tai Tham block. The Tai Tham block contains characters used in the Tai Tham script, which is used for writing the Northern Thai, Tai Lue, and Khün languages spoken in northern Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. The script is an abugida, with each consonant carrying an inherent vowel sound that can be modified with diacritics. The Tai Tham script has been used primarily for religious texts, particularly in the context of Theravada Buddhism. This block includes all the necessary characters for writing in Tai Tham, reflecting its significance in the cultural and religious traditions of the Tai peoples..