U+1C30 "ᰰ" Lepcha Consonant Sign N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C30 "ᰰ" Lepcha Consonant Sign N is a combining diacritical mark used in the Lepcha script, primarily employed to write the Lepcha language of Sikkim and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This specific glyph, known as the consonant sign N, functions as a medial or final consonant modifier that alters the inherent vowel of a Lepcha syllable or completes a consonant cluster, typically appearing below or attached to a base consonant character. It is part of the Lepcha block in Unicode, which was added in version 5.1 to support this endangered Tibeto-Burman language, and its accurate rendering ensures proper phonetic articulation in written texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C30 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Consonant Sign N |
| 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 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c30 |