U+1966 "ᥦ" Tai Le Letter Eh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1966 "ᥦ" Tai Le Letter Eh is a character from the Tai Le script, which is used to write the Tai Nüa language spoken primarily by the De'ang and Dai ethnic groups in southern China, Myanmar, and Laos. This specific letter represents a vowel sound typically transcribed as "eh" or "ɛ," serving as a critical component in forming syllables and words within the Tai Le orthography. The character was added to the Unicode standard as part of version 4.0 in 2003, aligning with efforts to digitally preserve minority and historical scripts for modern computing and textual representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+1966
Version Added 4.0
Name Tai Le Letter Eh
Block Tai Le
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᥦ
HTML Hex Encoding ᥦ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA5 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1966
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001966
C/C++/Java Escape \u1966

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 Vowel
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