U+ABC2 "ꯂ" Meetei Mayek Letter Lai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꯂ
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 |