U+1973 "ᥳ" Tai Le Letter Tone-5 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1973 "ᥳ" Tai Le Letter Tone-5 is part of the Tai Le script, which is used to write the Tai Nüa language spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China and parts of Southeast Asia. This specific character serves as a tone marker, indicating the fifth tone in the Tai Le phonetic system, which is crucial for distinguishing word meanings in a tonal language. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Tai Le block, which was introduced in version 4.0 in 2003 to support the digital representation of this script.

General Properties

Code Point U+1973
Version Added 4.0
Name Tai Le Letter Tone-5
Block Tai Le
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᥳ
HTML Hex Encoding ᥳ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA5 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1973
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001973
C/C++/Java Escape \u1973

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 Tone Letter
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