U+1980 "ᦀ" New Tai Lue Letter High Qa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1980 "ᦀ" New Tai Lue Letter High Qa is a glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which was developed for writing the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China and parts of Southeast Asia. This specific character represents a high tone consonant sound, akin to a glottal stop or a velar fricative, and is part of a set of letters that distinguish between high and low tone classes to accurately reflect the tonal nature of the Tai Lue language. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the New Tai Lue block, enabling digital representation and processing of this traditional script on modern electronic devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1980 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Qa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1980 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001980 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1980 |