U+19BB "ᦻ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Aay Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+19BB "ᦻ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Aay is a combining mark used in the New Tai Lue script to represent the vowel sound equivalent to "aay" or a long "ai" in the Tai Lue language, spoken primarily by the Dai people in southern China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This character is a combining vowel sign, meaning it is placed above or attached to a consonant letter to modify its pronunciation, and it is part of the New Tai Lue block in Unicode, which was added to support the modern standardized orthography of the Tai Lue alphabet developed in the 1950s. The sign depicts a curved diacritical mark that visually distinguishes the long vowel from its short counterpart and is essential for accurate representation of tonal and vowel distinctions in written Tai Lue.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᦻ
HTML Hex Encoding ᦻ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA6 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x19BB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000019BB
C/C++/Java Escape \u19bb

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 Right
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter