U+1C19 "ᰙ" Lepcha Letter Dza Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᰙ
U+1C19 "ᰙ" Lepcha Letter Dza is part of the Lepcha script, used primarily to write the Lepcha language spoken in parts of Sikkim, India, and neighboring regions of Nepal and Bhutan. This specific character represents the voiced affricate sound "dza" in the Lepcha writing system, which is classified as an abugida where each consonant symbol carries an inherent vowel. The Lepcha script, developed in the 18th century, features a unique orthography with distinct letter shapes, and U+1C19 contributes to accurately transcribing the phonetic inventory of the Lepcha language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C19 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Letter Dza |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c19 |