U+1997 "ᦗ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1997 "ᦗ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Pa is a consonant in the New Tai Lue script, a writing system used primarily for the Tai Lü language spoken by the Tai Lü people in parts of China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This specific letter represents a voiceless, unaspirated "p" sound, classified as a low tone class consonant, which influences the tone of the syllable in which it appears. The New Tai Lue script was developed in the 1950s as a reformed version of the traditional Tai Tham script, designed to simplify literacy and promote the language, and "ᦗ" is one of its standard components for writing words containing the bilabial plosive.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1997 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Pa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1997 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001997 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1997 |