Tai Tham Unicode Block

The Tai Tham Unicode block, covering the range from U+1A20 to U+1AAF, is dedicated to the script historically used for writing several Tai languages, notably Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. The script, also known as Lanna script, is rooted in the Brahmic script family and shares similarities with the Lao and Burmese scripts. Distinctive for its elegant, rounded shapes, Tai Tham was predominantly used in the palm leaf manuscripts and religious texts that are an important part of the cultural heritage in regions such as northern Thailand, Laos, and parts of Myanmar and China.

Though its modern usage is limited primarily to ceremonial and ecclesiastical contexts, efforts have been made to preserve the Tai Tham script in digital form through its inclusion in the Unicode Standard. This inclusion facilitates the study and revival of traditional manuscripts and promotes cultural and linguistic diversity in the digital age. The script includes characters for consonants, vowels, numerals, and several diacritical marks necessary to accurately represent the phonetic subtleties of the languages using Tai Tham, ensuring that they can be effectively utilized in digital text processing and scholarly research.

View a range of fonts that support the Tai Tham block.

Below you will find all the characters that are in the Tai Tham unicode block. Currently there are 127 characters in this block.