U+19BA "ᦺ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Ay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+19BA "ᦺ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Ay is a combining mark used in the New Tai Lue script, a writing system employed primarily for the Tai Lü language spoken in parts of China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This character represents the vowel sound "ay" and appears as a diacritic that is typically placed before the consonant it modifies, a distinctive feature of the script's left-to-right ordering. It is part of the New Tai Lue block in Unicode, standardized to support modern digital representation of the language in contexts like education and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19BA |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Ay |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19ba |