U+ABDC "ꯜ" Meetei Mayek Letter Lai Lonsum Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 Final
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