U+1988 "ᦈ" New Tai Lue Letter High Tsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᦈ
U+1988 "ᦈ" New Tai Lue Letter High Tsa is a specific letter used in the New Tai Lue script, which is employed to write the Tai Lü language spoken primarily in China’s Yunnan province and neighboring regions of Southeast Asia. It represents a high-tone aspirated affricate sound similar to the English "ts" but with a higher pitch, and it belongs to a set of consonant letters that distinguish between high and low tone classes to indicate a word’s tonal pronunciation. This character is encoded in Unicode to enable the digital representation and processing of the Tai Lü language, supporting the preservation and modern use of this writing system in computing and electronic communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1988 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Tsa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1988 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001988 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1988 |