U+1994 "ᦔ" New Tai Lue Letter High Pa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1994 "ᦔ" New Tai Lue Letter High Pa is a glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which is an alphabet designed for writing the Tai Lü language, spoken primarily by the Dai people in China’s Yunnan province and parts of Southeast Asia. This specific character represents a high tone consonant sound similar to the English "p," and it is part of a reformed orthography that replaced the older Tai Tham script to facilitate literacy, distinguishing it from its low-tone counterpart in the same consonant series. The character contributes to representing tonal distinctions in the language, aiding in accurate pronunciation and written communication within the script’s modern standardized form.

General Properties

Code Point U+1994
Version Added 4.1
Name New Tai Lue Letter High Pa
Block New Tai Lue
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᦔ
HTML Hex Encoding ᦔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA6 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1994
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001994
C/C++/Java Escape \u1994

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