U+19BE "ᦾ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Oay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+19BE "ᦾ" New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Oay 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 and parts of Southeast Asia. This specific vowel sign represents the sound "oay" and is placed above or attached to a base consonant character to modify its pronunciation, forming a distinct vowel nucleus within the syllable. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text in the New Tai Lue script can be accurately encoded, displayed, and processed across modern computing platforms, supporting the preservation and use of this endangered language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19BE |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Vowel Sign Oay |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᦾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᦾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA6 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19be |