U+ABDE "ꯞ" Meetei Mayek Letter Pa Lonsum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꯞ
U+ABDE "ꯞ" Meetei Mayek Letter Pa Lonsum is a consonant letter used in the Meetei Mayek script, which is primarily employed for writing the Meitei language, an official language of Manipur, India. This specific character represents the final or "lonsum" form of the letter "Pa," meaning it is a modified version used exclusively at the end of a syllable to indicate a specific phonetic outcome, typically a glottal stop or a shortened sound, distinguishing it from the standard "Pa" character used in other positions. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps ensure that digital text in the Meetei Mayek script can be accurately represented and preserved across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABDE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Meetei Mayek Letter Pa Lonsum |
| Block | Meetei Mayek |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꯞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꯞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAF 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABDE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABDE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabde |