U+199A "ᦚ" New Tai Lue Letter High Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᦚ
U+199A "ᦚ" New Tai Lue Letter High Fa is a part of the New Tai Lue script, which was developed in the 20th century for writing the Tai Lü language spoken primarily in southern China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character represents a high tone consonant sound, similar to the English "f," and is used in combination with other vowel and tone marks to accurately transcribe the tonal and phonetic nuances of the Tai Lü language. Its design features a distinctive curved shape that distinguishes it from other letters in the New Tai Lue alphabet, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure consistent digital representation across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+199A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Fa |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x199A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000199A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u199a |