U+19A6 "ᦦ" New Tai Lue Letter High Kva Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᦦ
U+19A6 "ᦦ" New Tai Lue Letter High Kva is part of the New Tai Lue script, which is used to write the Tai Lü language primarily spoken by the Dai people in southern China and parts of Southeast Asia. This specific character represents a high tone consonant sound, combining a "k" sound with a "v" or labial glide, and is distinct from its low tone counterpart "kva" in the script's tonal system. The New Tai Lue alphabet was reformed in the 1950s to simplify the older Tai Tham script, making it easier to type and teach, and "ᦦ" is a key letter in representing the language's phonology accurately.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19A6 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter High Kva |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19a6 |