U+ABCB "ꯋ" Meetei Mayek Letter Wai Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ABCB "ꯋ" Meetei Mayek Letter Wai is a symbol from the Meetei Mayek script, used primarily to write the Meitei language, an official language of the Indian state of Manipur. This character represents the consonant sound "w" or "v" in the language and is part of a syllabic writing system that dates back centuries, though it fell out of use and was later revived in the 20th century. Specifically, "Wai" corresponds to the 24th letter of the Meetei Mayek alphabet and contributes to the phonetic richness of the script, which includes independent vowels and consonant-vowel combinations. In modern digital contexts, it is encoded in Unicode to support the accurate representation and preservation of Meitei texts across electronic devices and platforms.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꯋ
HTML Hex Encoding ꯋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAF 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xABCB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ABCB
C/C++/Java Escape \uabcb

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