U+198E "ᦎ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+198E "ᦎ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ta is a used in the New Tai Lue script, which was developed in the 1950s for writing the Tai Lü language spoken primarily in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, China, as well as in parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This consonant represents the sound /t/ and is classified as a "high" tone class letter, meaning it typically pairs with distinct vowel signs and tone markers to indicate high register tones in the language. The character belongs to the New Tai Lue block in Unicode, which was added to support the modern reformed version of the traditional Tai Tham script, offering improved readability and compatibility with digital text processing. As part of a standardized writing system, "ᦎ" helps preserve and facilitate communication in the Tai Lü language across various electronic platforms and documents.

General Properties

Code Point U+198E
Version Added 4.1
Name New Tai Lue Letter High Ta
Block New Tai Lue
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᦎ
HTML Hex Encoding ᦎ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA6 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x198E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000198E
C/C++/Java Escape \u198e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script New Tai Lue
Script Extensions New Tai Lue
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter