U+198C "ᦌ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+198C "ᦌ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Sa is a glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which is employed to write the Tai Lü language, primarily spoken by the Tai Lü people in parts of China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos. This specific letter represents a low tone consonant sound, akin to the English "s," and is part of a script that was reformed in the 1950s to simplify the traditional Tai Lue writing system, making it more accessible for literacy and preserving the language in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+198C |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Sa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x198C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000198C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u198c |