U+198B "ᦋ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Tsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+198B "ᦋ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Tsa is a script character used in the New Tai Lue alphabet, which is employed to write the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China and parts of Southeast Asia. It represents a low tone consonant sound, specifically an aspirated "ts" like the "ts" in "cats," and is part of a modern reformed writing system created in the 1950s to replace the older Tai Lue script for easier printing and education. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the New Tai Lue block, aiding in digital text representation and preservation of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+198B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Tsa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x198B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000198B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u198b |