U+1C3F "᰿" Lepcha Punctuation Tshook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᰿
U+1C3F "᰿" Lepcha Punctuation Tshook is a punctuation mark used in the Lepcha script, which is native to the Lepcha people of Sikkim, India, and parts of Nepal and Bhutan. It functions similarly to a period or full stop in other writing systems, indicating the end of a sentence or a significant pause in the text. The Tshook is visually distinctive, resembling a small vertical line with a curved top, and it plays a crucial role in organizing written Lepcha by clearly delimiting syntactic units. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital texts in the Lepcha language can be accurately represented and preserved across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C3F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Lepcha Punctuation Tshook |
| Block | Lepcha |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᰿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᰿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB0 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c3f |
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 | Break After |
| Script | Lepcha |
| Script Extensions | Lepcha |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |