U+1C14 "ᰔ" Lepcha Letter Bla Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C14 "ᰔ" Lepcha Letter Bla is a specific character within the Lepcha script, an abugida used to write the Lepcha language spoken primarily in Sikkim, India, and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This character represents the consonant cluster "bla" and belongs to the Lepcha Unicode block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2008 as part of version 5.1 to support the preservation and digital representation of this endangered language. The glyph depicts a distinct syllabic sign, reflecting the unique orthographic and calligraphic traditions of the Lepcha writing system, which is derived from the Tibetan script but adapted to represent the phonological nuances of the Lepcha language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C14 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Letter Bla |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c14 |