U+199F "ᦟ" New Tai Lue Letter Low La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |