U+198A "ᦊ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+198A "ᦊ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ya is a character used for writing the Tai Lue language, primarily spoken in parts of China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. It represents a high tone consonant sound, specifically a voiced palatal approximant similar to the English "y", and is part of the New Tai Lue script, a reformed alphabet standardized for simplified and consistent digital representation. This letter belongs to the New Tai Lue block within Unicode, which includes characters necessary for modern documentation, typography, and digital communication of the Tai Lue language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+198A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Ya |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x198A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000198A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u198a |