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U+1A37, ᨷ
TAI THAM LETTER BA

[U+1A36]
Tai Tham
[U+1A38]

Translingual

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Letter

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(pa)

  1. The 29th letter and 21st consonant of the non-Lao Tai Tham Pali alphabet. In Pali it represents the voiceless, unaspirated labial consonant /p/.

Usage notes

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In the writing systems of Tai languages, the letter represents the sound [b] or [ɓ] at the start of native words. The subscript letter that looks like a small version of this letter and represents that same sound is encoded as an unrelated character in Unicode, namely .

See also

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  • (previous letter of the Pali alphabet)
  • (next letter of the Pali alphabet)