U+1974 "ᥴ" Tai Le Letter Tone-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1974 "ᥴ" Tai Le Letter Tone-6 is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Le script, which is traditionally employed to write the Tai Nüa language spoken in parts of southern China and Southeast Asia. This specific character represents the sixth lexical tone in that language, modifying the pitch contour of the preceding syllable to distinguish meaning in words that would otherwise appear identical. As part of the Tai Le block in Unicode, it is rendered as a combining mark that appears above or attached to a base consonant, playing a crucial role in the accurate representation of tonal distinctions essential for reading and writing Tai Nüa text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1974 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Tai Le Letter Tone-6 |
| Block | Tai Le |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᥴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᥴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA5 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1974 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001974 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1974 |