U+16A82 "𖪂" Tangsa Letter Iq Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖪂
U+16A82 "𖪂" Tangsa Letter Iq is part of the Tangsa script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2019 with version 12.0 to support the Tangsa language spoken by the Tangsa people in northeastern India and neighboring parts of Myanmar. This letter represents a vowel sound in the Tangsa alphabet, specifically the /i/ phoneme with a distinctive glottalized or creaky tone often associated with the name "Iq." Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation and typing of the Tangsa language, which has a rich oral tradition and is now being documented in written form to support literacy and cultural heritage. The character is classified under the Tangsa block and is encoded as a basic letter for writing modern Tangsa orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A82 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Tangsa Letter Iq |
| Block | Tangsa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖪂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖪂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAA 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude82 |