U+1C37 "᰷" Lepcha Sign Nukta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᰷
U+1C37 "᰷" Lepcha Sign Nukta is a combining diacritical mark used in the Lepcha script, which is employed to write the Lepcha language of Sikkim, India, and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. This sign functions to alter the sound of a base consonant character, typically by indicating a borrowed or foreign phonetic value, such as a retroflex or aspirated stop, that is not native to standard Lepcha phonology. It is placed below the consonant it modifies, enabling the script to accurately represent sounds from loanwords, especially those from Tibetan and Sanskrit, and thus is essential for the precise orthographic transcription of non-native vocabulary in the Lepcha writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C37 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Sign Nukta |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Nukta |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C37 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c37 |