U+19A8 "ᦨ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Kva Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᦨ
U+19A8 "ᦨ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Kva is a distinct glyph used in the New Tai Lue script, which was developed for writing the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in parts of southern China, northern Laos, and Thailand. This character represents a low tone consonant sound, specifically the voiceless velar fricative or a similar velar phoneme, and it is part of a reformed alphabet created in the 1950s to modernize traditional Tai Lue writing. The New Tai Lue script is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text processing and preservation of this minority language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19A8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Kva |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19a8 |