U+198F "ᦏ" New Tai Lue Letter High Tha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᦏ
U+198F "ᦏ" New Tai Lue Letter High Tha is a glyph representing a high-tone consonant in the New Tai Lue script, which is used primarily to write the Tai Lue language spoken by people in parts of China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This script, a modern update to the traditional Tai Lue writing system, distinguishes consonants by tone class, and "ᦏ" specifically belongs to the high tone group, contributing to the phonetic precision of the language. The character is part of the New Tai Lue block in Unicode, supporting digital preservation and communication for this Tai-Kadai language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+198F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Tha |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x198F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000198F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u198f |