U+199B "ᦛ" New Tai Lue Letter High Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᦛ
U+199B "ᦛ" New Tai Lue Letter High Va is a script character used in the New Tai Lue alphabet, which was developed for writing the Tai Lü language spoken primarily by the Dai people in southern China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character represents the high tone class of the consonant sound "va", and it forms part of a syllabic writing system that distinguishes between high and low tone consonants to indicate different pitches in pronunciation. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard, under the Tai Le block, ensures accurate digital representation and preservation of this script for modern use in electronic texts and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+199B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Va |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x199B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000199B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u199b |