U+19B0 "ᦰ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Vowel Shortener Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᦰ
U+19B0 "ᦰ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Vowel Shortener is a diacritical mark used in the New Tai Lue script, which is employed for writing the Tai Lü language spoken primarily in parts of China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character modifies a preceding vowel to indicate a shortened or clipped pronunciation, distinguishing words that would otherwise be identical in spelling but differ in vowel length. It is placed after the vowel it affects and is an essential component of the orthography for accurately representing the phonetic contrasts in the Tai Lü language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19B0 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Vowel Shortener |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19b0 |