ᨷ

ᨷ (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/.
   • Pali ᨷᨷ᩠ᨹᩣᩈ (papphāsa, “lungs”)
   • Pali ᨷᨧ᩠ᨧᨲ᩠ᨲ (paccatta, “individiual”)
   • Pali ᨷᩤᨴ (pāda, “foot”)
   • Northern Thai ᨷᩬᨠ (bɔ̀ɔk, “to tell”)
   • Lü ᨷᩢ (ḃaw¹, “not”)
   • Lü ᩈᩥ᩠ᨷᩈᩬᨦᨻᩢ᩠ᨶᨶᩣ (ṡiibṡoangpannaa, “Xishuangbanna”)

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 ᩝ.

• Lü: ᦢ (ḃ)
  • Lü: ᧇ (b)
  • Lü: ᦥ (b)

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