U+ABDC "ꯜ" Meetei Mayek Letter Lai Lonsum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꯜ
U+ABDC "ꯜ" Meetei Mayek Letter Lai Lonsum is a consonant used in the Meetei Mayek script, primarily for writing the Meitei language spoken in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. It represents the sound "l" and is classified as a lonsum letter, which is a final consonant form used at the end of syllables, distinguishing it from the initial form of the same sound. This character is part of the modern, reformed Meetei Mayek alphabet, which was revived and standardized in the 20th century to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Meitei people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABDC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Meetei Mayek Letter Lai Lonsum |
| Block | Meetei Mayek |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꯜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꯜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAF 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabdc |