U+1981 "ᦁ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Qa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1981 "ᦁ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Qa is a glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which is employed to write the Tai Lü language primarily spoken in parts of China, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. This character represents a low tone consonant sound and is one of several letters in the script that require a specific initial tone marker to indicate pronunciation. The New Tai Lue alphabet was developed in the 1950s as a reform of the traditional Tai Lue script, and U+1981 belongs to the block allocated for this modern standard, supporting the preservation and digital encoding of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1981 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Qa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1981 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001981 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1981 |