U+A4E1 "ꓡ" Lisu Letter La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4E1 "ꓡ" Lisu Letter La is part of the Lisu script, which was created in the early 20th century by missionary Sara Ba Thaw for writing the Lisu language spoken in southwestern China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This specific character represents the sound of the letter "L" and is used as a consonant in the Lisu alphabet. The Lisu script is classified as a featural alphabet, where the shapes of letters indicate phonetic features, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2008 as part of the Lisu block (U+A4D0 to U+A4FF). Today, this letter is essential for preserving and digitally representing the Lisu language in modern text and computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4E1
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter La
Block Lisu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓡ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓡ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4E1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4E1
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4e1

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