What ໒ means
It is the Lao digit for two. Use it for dates, prices, or pages; Western digits also appear in Lao.
The Tham script served religious writing; Tai Noi (Lao Buhan) served secular records. Early examples include a Tham document (1376), a Lao Tham manuscript (1520), and the earliest known Tai Noi inscription in Laos (1497)—dates for writing, not the invention of ໒. Modern Lao grew from Tai Noi, in a regional history linked to Thai and Khmer writing; Khmer traces to Pallava, an old South Indian script.
Font choice can change its shape, not its value.
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Who writes ໒
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ໒ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ໒
- Search it as
- ໒ · Lao digit 2 · Lao numerals
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
໒\0ED2Codes and encoding1 code points
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