U+1A44 "ᩄ" Tai Tham Letter Lue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᩄ
U+1A44 "ᩄ" Tai Tham Letter Lue is a consonant used in the Tai Tham script, which historically writes several Tai languages including Northern Thai (Kham Mueang), Tai Lue, and Khün. This specific letter represents the sound "l" and is marked by a distinctive coiled form, functioning as a core component in the orthography for transcribing the Tai Lue language. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital preservation and communication in these endangered scripts, supporting cultural heritage and modern text processing for communities in Southeast Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A44 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter Lue |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a44 |