U+199C "ᦜ" New Tai Lue Letter High La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+199C "ᦜ" New Tai Lue Letter High La is a specific letter used in the New Tai Lue script, which was developed in the 1950s for writing the Tai Lü language, spoken primarily in parts of southern China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a high-tone "la" sound, distinguishing it from its low-tone counterpart in the script, and is part of the Unicode block that supports the modern orthography of the New Tai Lue alphabet, enabling digital text representation and preservation of this tonal language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+199C |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High La |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x199C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000199C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u199c |