U+A4E1 "ꓡ" Lisu Letter La Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓡ
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 |