U+1966 "ᥦ" Tai Le Letter Eh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |