U+19D8 "᧘" New Tai Lue Digit Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+19D8 "᧘" New Tai Lue Digit Eight is a numeral used in the New Tai Lue script, which is an abugida employed for writing the Tai Lü language, spoken primarily by the Tai Lü people in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan, China, as well as in parts of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This digit represents the number eight within that script’s decimal numbering system, and it belongs to the Unicode block “New Tai Lue,” which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 4.1 in 2005 to support the modernized version of the traditional Tai Lue writing system. The character has a distinct visual form that differs from the Arabic numerals used in English, reflecting the unique stylistic conventions of the New Tai Lue script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+19D8 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | New Tai Lue Digit Eight |
| Block | New Tai Lue |
| General Category | Decimal Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᧘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᧘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA7 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x19D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000019D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u19d8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | Decimal |
| Numeric Value | 8 |
| Line Break | Numeric |
| Script | New Tai Lue |
| Script Extensions | New Tai Lue |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Number |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Numeric |
| Sentence Break | Numeric |