U+19B5 "ᦵ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+19B5 "ᦵ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign E is a combining diacritic used in the New Tai Lue script, which is employed to write the Tai Lue language spoken primarily by the Dai people in Yunnan, China, and neighboring regions of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This character represents the vowel sound /e/ and is placed above or before a consonant letter to modify its pronunciation, forming an essential part of the orthography that was standardized in the 1950s to modernize the traditional Lue writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+19B5
Version Added 4.1
Name New Tai Lue Vowel Sign E
Block New Tai Lue
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᦵ
HTML Hex Encoding ᦵ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA6 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x19B5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000019B5
C/C++/Java Escape \u19b5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script New Tai Lue
Script Extensions New Tai Lue
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Visual Order Left
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Logical Order Exception Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter