U+A4DD "ꓝ" Lisu Letter Tsa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4DD "ꓝ" Lisu Letter Tsa is part of the Lisu block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support the Fraser alphabet, a script used to write the Lisu language spoken by the Lisu people primarily in China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This specific character represents the consonant sound "tsa" and is used in the orthography to accurately transcribe the phonetic structure of Lisu words. The script itself, developed by James O. Fraser and others in the early 20th century, features uppercase and lowercase forms, with "ꓝ" serving as the uppercase version of the letter for capitalizing words or proper nouns. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital communication, text processing, and preservation of the Lisu language in modern technology.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4DD
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter Tsa
Block Lisu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓝ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓝ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4DD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4DD
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4dd

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 Alphabetic
Script Lisu
Script Extensions Lisu
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter