U+19BD "ᦽ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Oy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+19BD "ᦽ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Oy is a combining diacritical mark used in the New Tai Lue script, which is employed to write the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. This vowel sign represents the sound "oy" as in the English word "boy," and it is placed above a consonant character to modify its pronunciation within a syllable. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard at version 5.2 supports the digital representation and preservation of the New Tai Lue script, enabling accurate text rendering and exchange across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19BD |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Oy |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19bd |