U+199F "ᦟ" New Tai Lue Letter Low La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+199F "ᦟ" New Tai Lue Letter Low La is a specific glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, an abugida developed for writing the Tai Lü language spoken by the Tai Lü people primarily in the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan, China, as well as in parts of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This character represents the consonant sound /l/ with a low tone, distinguishing it from its high-tone counterpart in the script, and it is part of a modernized orthography introduced in the 1950s to replace the older Tai Lue script for improved readability and print compatibility.

General Properties

Code Point U+199F
Version Added 4.1
Name New Tai Lue Letter Low La
Block New Tai Lue
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᦟ
HTML Hex Encoding ᦟ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA6 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x199F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000199F
C/C++/Java Escape \u199f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script New Tai Lue
Script Extensions New Tai Lue
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter