U+1959 "ᥙ" Tai Le Letter Pa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1959 "ᥙ" Tai Le Letter Pa is a character from the Tai Le script, an abugida historically used to write the Tai Nüa language spoken by the Tai Nüa people in parts of southern China and Southeast Asia. It represents the consonant sound /p/ and is named "Pa" reflecting its phonetic function within the script's syllabic structure. This character was encoded in Unicode version 4.0 released in 2003 as part of the Tai Le block, which preserves the traditional writing system for religious, cultural, and modern digital usage among Tai Nüa communities.

General Properties

Code Point U+1959
Version Added 4.0
Name Tai Le Letter Pa
Block Tai Le
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᥙ
HTML Hex Encoding ᥙ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA5 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1959
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001959
C/C++/Java Escape \u1959

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