U+1987 "ᦇ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1987 "ᦇ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Nga is a script character used in the New Tai Lue alphabet, which is employed to write the Tai Lü language primarily spoken by the Dai people in southern China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. It represents a voiced velar nasal sound, similar to the "ng" in the English word "sing," and is classified as a "low" tone class consonant within the tonal system of the language. This character is part of the New Tai Lue block that was added to the Unicode Standard in 2003, reflecting a reform of the traditional Tai Lue script to simplify its orthography and improve consistency for modern use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1987 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Nga |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1987 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001987 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1987 |