U+ABDF "ꯟ" Meetei Mayek Letter Na Lonsum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꯟ
U+ABDF "ꯟ" Meetei Mayek Letter Na Lonsum is a vowel killer sign used in the Meitei script, which is primarily employed to write the Meitei language, an official language of the Indian state of Manipur. This specific character, known as a "lonsum" or final consonant, represents the sound [n] in a syllable's coda position, functioning to mark the absence of an inherent vowel where it would normally occur. As part of the Meetei Mayek block, it is essential for accurately transcribing the phonology of Meitei, differentiating word endings and enabling proper pronunciation in both traditional and modern texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABDF |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Meetei Mayek Letter Na Lonsum |
| Block | Meetei Mayek |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꯟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꯟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAF 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABDF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabdf |