Please see the illustration above to learn how to write the Thai letter Tho Thong (ธ). The forty-second consonant of the Thai alphabet and the last of the T-sounding letters, this letter traces its ancestry to Old Khmer. It appears frequently in Indic loanwords, particularly those with abstract, religious, royal, or literary tones.

Writing tips:
Start at the middle left. Draw a vertical line downward, then make a sharp right turn at the bottom and go horizontally over to the bottom-right. Bring the line upward halfway, turn back and go left, just above the starting point, and curve it up to the top, finishing with a small upward tail to the right.

Letter type:

Consonant

Consonant tone class:

Each Thai consonant belongs to a tone class - low, mid, or high - which helps determine the tone of syllables it starts.

Low

Spoken pronunciation:

tho thong 

Named after:

Each Thai consonant's name is acrophonic - it comes from a word starting with the same sound, in this case “ธง” meaning “flag”.

ธง (flag) 

Related characters:

• Tho Thahan (ท)