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ฏ to patak

ฏ (to patak) is a mid-class consonant named after ปฏัก, “goad”. At the start of a syllable it is /t/, written t in RTGS; at the end of one it is /t̚/ (t).

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ฏฏ ปฏักto patak · goad
Thai name
ฏ ปฏัก · to patak
Name word
ปฏัก, goad
Class
Mid class
At the start of a syllable
/t/ · RTGS t
At the end of a syllable
/t̚/ · RTGS t
Unicode
U+0E0F · THAI CHARACTER TO PATAK
In HTML
ฏ or ฏ
Kedmanee key
Shift + D
Pattachote key
Shift + X

How it sounds

Same sound and class as ต: an unaspirated t. It is found mostly in words that came into Thai from Pali and Sanskrit.

One other letter has the same sound at the start of a syllable: ต to tao (mid).

Easy to mistake for ฎ do chada and ต to tao: compare them at a large size in the grid below.

Class and tone

Mid-class letters are the only ones that take all four tone marks. With no mark, a live syllable has the mid tone and a dead one the low tone; mai ek gives low, mai tho falling, mai tri high and mai chattawa rising.

Syllables with ฏ and the vowel า
SpellingSyllableTone
No mark, live syllable (long vowel)ฏาMid
No mark, dead syllable, short vowelฏะLow
No mark, dead syllable, long vowelฏากLow
Mai ekฏ่าLow
Mai thoฏ้าFalling
Mai triฏ๊าHigh
Mai chattawaฏ๋าRising

The syllables show the rule, not words to learn. The tone rules explain live and dead syllables.

Words with ฏ

ThaiRTGSMeaning
ปฏิทินpatithincalendar
ปฏิบัติpatibatto carry out, to practise
ปฏิเสธpatisetto refuse, to deny
ปรากฏprakotto appear
กบฏkabotrebellion; rebel

RTGS shows neither tone nor vowel length; type a word into the font tester to see it in every font.

ฏ in every font

The letter in each of the 61 families you can download here, in its regular style. Looped faces start the stroke from a small circle; loopless ones leave it out. Each card opens the family’s page.