U+199E "ᦞ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+199E "ᦞ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Va is a glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which was developed in the 1950s for writing the Tai Lü language, spoken primarily in Yunnan Province, China, and parts of Southeast Asia. This specific letter represents a low-tone consonant sound akin to "v" or "w," and it is part of a reformed alphabetic system that replaced the older, more complex Tai Tham script to improve literacy and simplify printing. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the New Tai Lue block, allowing for digital representation and text processing of this minority language script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+199E |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Va |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x199E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000199E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u199e |