yo ying

ญ หญิง · woman

Low class อักษรต่ำ

Low class is the shifted class — the same mark lands a different tone than on mid or high.

Pronunciationinitial /j/

ญlooped · print

ญloopless · modern

ญhandwritten

Initial sound/j/RTGS y · Paiboon y

As finaln · แม่กนcloses a syllable → “dead”

Frequency#29 of 44rarer — mostly in Pali/Sanskrit loans

CodepointU+0E0D

ญ หญิง (yo ying) — Thai consonant meaning 'woman', engraved specimen plate — หญิง · woman — engraved specimen plate

๑What tone does ญ give?class isn’t trivia — it’s the tone engine

A consonant’s class exists for one reason: it decides the tone. Low class is the shifted class — the same mark lands a different tone than on mid or high. Here’s every outcome for ญ as the initial:

Syllable	– No mark	◌่ mái èek	◌้ mái thoo
Liveopen or sonorant end	mid	falling	high
Dead · longlong vowel + stop	falling	falling	high
Dead · shortshort vowel + stop	high	falling	high

Live syllable — open or sonorant end

–No markmid

◌่mái èekfalling

◌้mái thoohigh

Dead · long syllable — long vowel + stop

–No markfalling

◌่mái èekfalling

◌้mái thoohigh

Dead · short syllable — short vowel + stop

–No markhigh

◌่mái èekfalling

◌้mái thoohigh

Change the initial to another class and the same marks produce different tones — that shift is what makes tone a small system, not 44 separate facts. Derive tones on the Tones surface →

๒Easy to mix upby shape, and by sound

Sounds like — watch the spelling

Same initial /j/:

ยyo yak

Same final /n/ — identical at a word’s end:

ณno nen นno nu รro ruea ลlo ling ฬlo chula

๓In real wordsthe letter at work

As an initial