U+1983 "ᦃ" New Tai Lue Letter High Xa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1983 "ᦃ" New Tai Lue Letter High Xa is a symbol from the New Tai Lue script, which is used to write the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This specific character represents the high tone consonant sound "xa" and belongs to the block of New Tai Lue letters that were added to the Unicode Standard to support digital representation of the script, which was reformed in the 1950s to simplify the traditional Tai Lue alphabet. Being a consonant classified as "high" in the tonal system of the language, it plays a crucial role in indicating the correct pronunciation and meaning of words when writing New Tai Lue text in electronic documents or communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1983 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Xa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1983 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001983 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1983 |