U+1957 "ᥗ" Tai Le Letter Tha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1957 "ᥗ" Tai Le Letter Tha is a script character used in the Tai Le writing system, which is primarily employed to write the Tai Nüa language spoken in parts of southwestern China and neighboring regions. This letter represents a voiceless aspirated dental plosive sound, similar to the "th" in the English word "top" but with a strong puff of air. As part of the Tai Le block in the Unicode standard, it enables accurate digital representation and preservation of the Tai Nüa language, supporting cultural and linguistic documentation. The character's distinctive curved form is designed to integrate with the tonal marking system of Tai Le script, where it functions as a consonant that can combine with various vowel diacritics to form syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+1957
Version Added 4.0
Name Tai Le Letter Tha
Block Tai Le
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᥗ
HTML Hex Encoding ᥗ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA5 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1957
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001957
C/C++/Java Escape \u1957

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 Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Tai Le
Script Extensions Tai Le
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 Other
Sentence Break OLetter