U+1986 "ᦆ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Xa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1986 "ᦆ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Xa is a symbol from the New Tai Lue script, which is used primarily to write the Tai Lue language spoken by the Dai people in parts of China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This specific character represents a low tone consonant sound similar to the English "x" or voiceless velar fricative, and it is part of a writing system that was reformed in the 1950s to simplify the traditional Tai Lue alphabet for easier printing and literacy. As a distinct typographic element in digital text, it enables accurate representation and preservation of the Tai Lue language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1986 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Xa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1986 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001986 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1986 |