U+1C23 "ᰣ" Lepcha Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᰣ
U+1C23 "ᰣ" Lepcha Letter A is a symbol from the Lepcha script, which is used to write the Lepcha language spoken primarily in Sikkim, India, and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This character represents the inherent vowel sound 'a' and serves as a fundamental building block in the Lepcha writing system, functioning both as an independent vowel and as a carrier for diacritical marks that modify its pronunciation. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the block "Lepcha," which encompasses the script's consonants, vowels, and various modifiers to support digital text representation for this Tibeto-Burman language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C23 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Letter A |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c23 |