U+19AB "ᦫ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Sua Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+19AB "ᦫ" New Tai Lue Letter Low Sua is a consonant used in the New Tai Lue script, which is designed for writing the Tai Lü language spoken primarily in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, China, as well as in parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character represents the low tone class of the sound "s" and is part of a modern, reformed alphabet that was standardized in the 1950s to replace the older Tai Lue script, aiming to improve literacy and printing. The character is classified under the Unicode block "New Tai Lue," which ranges from U+1980 to U+19DF and includes a set of consonants, vowels, and tone marks essential for accurately representing the tonal and phonetic structure of the Tai Lü language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19AB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Letter Low Sua |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19ab |