U+1917 "ᤗ" Limbu Letter La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1917 "ᤗ" Limbu Letter La is a character from the Limbu script, which is used to write the Limbu language spoken primarily in Nepal and parts of India, and it represents the consonant sound "la." This letter is a component of the Limbu alphabet, which is an abugida where each character typically denotes a consonant combined with an inherent vowel, unless modified by diacritics. In the Unicode standard, it resides in the Limbu block (U+1900 to U+194F) and is encoded for use in digital text to preserve and facilitate the modern written representation of the Limbu language, an important part of the cultural heritage of the Limbu people.

General Properties

Code Point U+1917
Version Added 4.0
Name Limbu Letter La
Block Limbu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᤗ
HTML Hex Encoding ᤗ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA4 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1917
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001917
C/C++/Java Escape \u1917

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Limbu
Script Extensions Limbu
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter