U+1982 "ᦂ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1982 "ᦂ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ka is a character from the New Tai Lue script, which is used primarily to write the Tai Lü language spoken by the Tai Lü people in parts of China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character represents a high tone syllable-initial consonant sound equivalent to the English "k", and it is part of the New Tai Lue block in the Unicode standard, which was added to support the modernized version of the traditional Tai Lue script. The character is visually distinct with a curved top and a vertical stem, and it plays a key role in accurately representing the phonetic and tonal distinctions of the Tai Lü language in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1982 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Ka |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1982 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001982 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1982 |