U+ABC2 "ꯂ" Meetei Mayek Letter Lai Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ABC2 "ꯂ" Meetei Mayek Letter Lai is a character representing the consonant "la" in the Meetei Mayek script, which is used primarily to write the Meitei language, an official language of the Indian state of Manipur. This specific letter, named "Lai," corresponds to the sound /l/ and is part of the basic consonant inventory of the script, which was historically used for manuscripts and inscriptions before a period of decline and later revival in the 20th century. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Meetei Mayek block, enabling its digital representation and use in modern text processing for the preservation and promotion of the Meitei linguistic and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+ABC2
Version Added 5.2
Name Meetei Mayek Letter Lai
Block Meetei Mayek
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꯂ
HTML Hex Encoding ꯂ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAF 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xABC2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ABC2
C/C++/Java Escape \uabc2

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 Meetei Mayek
Script Extensions Meetei Mayek
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
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