U+1C24 "ᰤ" Lepcha Subjoined Letter Ya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1C24 "ᰤ" Lepcha Subjoined Letter Ya is a glyph within the Lepcha script, an abugida used to write the Lepcha language of Sikkim, India, and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ya" when it appears in a subjoined form, meaning it is written below another consonant to form a conjunct or ligature, typically indicating that the "y" sound follows the base consonant. It is part of a set of subjoined letters that enable the script to represent complex consonant clusters, and its usage is distinct from the full-sized "Ya" character, as it modifies the primary base letter rather than standing alone. This subjoined letter is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the category of "Other Letters" and is used specifically in the Lepcha orthography to preserve the phonetic nuances of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+1C24
Version Added 5.1
Name Lepcha Subjoined Letter Ya
Block Lepcha
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᰤ
HTML Hex Encoding ᰤ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xB0 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1C24
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001C24
C/C++/Java Escape \u1c24

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 Combining Mark
Script Lepcha
Script Extensions Lepcha
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Subjoined
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend