U+19A5 "ᦥ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+19A5 "ᦥ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Ba is a specific glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which is employed to write the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in the Xishuangbanna region of China, as well as parts of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This character represents a consonant sound categorized as a "low" class letter in the tonal system of the language, distinguished from its high-class counterpart "ᦔ" (New Tai Lue Letter High Pa) to indicate different tones. As part of the New Tai Lue alphabet, which was standardized in the 1950s to replace an older script, U+19A5 enables the accurate representation of the Tai Lue language's phonology in digital text, supporting cultural preservation and modern communication for its speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19A5 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Ba |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19a5 |