U+16AAB "𖪫" Tangsa Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖪫
U+16AAB "𖪫" Tangsa Letter Ma is a specific glyph within the Tangsa script, which was developed for writing the Tangsa language spoken by the Tangsa people of northeastern India and Myanmar. This character represents the phoneme /m/, functioning as the equivalent of the Latin letter "m" in the Tangsa orthography. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 14.0 in 2021, reflecting a broader effort to digitally encode and preserve the world's minority and indigenous writing systems. In practical use, the character appears in printed texts and digital environments to represent the sound and meaning inherent to Tangsa vocabulary and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AAB |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Tangsa Letter Ma |
| Block | Tangsa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖪫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖪫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAA 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udeab |