U+1C18 "ᰘ" Lepcha Letter Tsha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1C18 "ᰘ" Lepcha Letter Tsha is a symbol from the Lepcha script, an abugida used to write the Lepcha language spoken by the Lepcha people in parts of Sikkim, India, Nepal, and Bhutan. This specific character represents the consonant sound "tsha" and is part of the script's repertoire of letters that are used to transcribe the language's phonetic inventory, typically appearing as a base character that can be modified with vowel diacritics or other marks. The Lepcha script itself is believed to have developed from the Tibetan script and is written from left to right, with U+1C18 occupying a designated position in the Unicode block for Lepcha characters ranging from U+1C00 to U+1C4F.

General Properties

Code Point U+1C18
Version Added 5.1
Name Lepcha Letter Tsha
Block Lepcha
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᰘ
HTML Hex Encoding ᰘ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB0 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1C18
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001C18
C/C++/Java Escape \u1c18

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Lepcha
Script Extensions Lepcha
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter