U+1996 "ᦖ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1996 "ᦖ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ma is a glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which is an abugida employed to write the Tai Lü language spoken primarily in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, China, as well as in parts of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This specific character represents a high tone consonant sound similar to the English "m," and it is part of a unified script designed to replace the older Tai Tham script for modern education and digital communication. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate the written form of the Tai Lü language in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1996
Version Added 4.1
Name New Tai Lue Letter High Ma
Block New Tai Lue
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᦖ
HTML Hex Encoding ᦖ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA6 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1996
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001996
C/C++/Java Escape \u1996

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