U+1C15 "ᰕ" Lepcha Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᰕ
U+1C15 "ᰕ" Lepcha Letter Ma is a glyph representing the bilabial nasal consonant "ma" in the Lepcha script, which is used to write the Lepcha language spoken primarily in Sikkim, India, and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This character corresponds to the sound akin to the English "m" and functions as a consonant letter in the Lepcha syllabary, where it can combine with various vowel diacritics to form syllables. As a part of the Lepcha Unicode block, the letter Ma helps preserve and digitize the unique writing system, which is written left to right and features a distinctive rounded appearance influenced by Tibetan and Burmese scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C15 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Letter Ma |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c15 |