U+1C2B "ᰫ" Lepcha Vowel Sign Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C2B "ᰫ" Lepcha Vowel Sign Uu is a combining diacritical mark used in the Lepcha script, which is native to the Sikkim and Darjeeling regions of India and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This vowel sign represents the long "uu" sound and is written as a horizontal bar above or below a consonant letter to modify its pronunciation, functioning as a dependent vowel that cannot stand alone in text. It is part of the Lepcha block of Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of this endangered Tibeto-Burman language, preserving its orthographic tradition for modern computing and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C2B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Vowel Sign Uu |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c2b |