U+1C2C "ᰬ" Lepcha Vowel Sign E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C2C "ᰬ" Lepcha Vowel Sign E is a combining diacritical mark used in the Lepcha script, which is traditionally employed to write the Lepcha language of Sikkim, India, and parts of Nepal. This vowel sign appears as a small glyph attached to a base consonant letter to represent the vowel sound "e," modifying the pronunciation of the consonant it follows. It is classified as a spacing combining mark, meaning it takes up its own visual space rather than overlapping with the base character, and it plays a key role in the orthography of Lepcha, a script that is written from left to right and features distinctive syllabic structures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C2C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Vowel Sign E |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c2c |