U+19A2 "ᦢ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+19A2 "ᦢ" New Tai Lue Letter High Ba is a glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which is designed for writing the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in the Xishuangbanna region of China, as well as in parts of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This character represents the high tone class consonant /b/ and appears in the New Tai Lue block of the Unicode standard, where it serves as a distinct letter for phonetic transcription. Its visual form is a rounded, looped shape with a horizontal line, and it is typically employed in text alongside other characters to spell words and convey meaning in the Tai Lue writing system, which was standardized in the 1950s to replace the older Tai Tham script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19A2 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Ba |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19a2 |