U+ABEA "ꯪ" Meetei Mayek Vowel Sign Nung Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ABEA "ꯪ" Meetei Mayek Vowel Sign Nung is a combining diacritical mark used in the Meetei Mayek script, which is employed to write the Meitei language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Manipur. This vowel sign represents the nasalized vowel sound that modifies the pronunciation of the base consonant character it is attached to, functioning as a nasalizer rather than a standalone vowel. It is an essential component of the script's orthography, contributing to the accurate representation of the language's phonetic inventory and preserving the linguistic heritage of the Meitei community.

General Properties

Code Point U+ABEA
Version Added 5.2
Name Meetei Mayek Vowel Sign Nung
Block Meetei Mayek
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꯪ
HTML Hex Encoding ꯪ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xAF 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xABEA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ABEA
C/C++/Java Escape \uabea

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 Combining Mark
Script Meetei Mayek
Script Extensions Meetei Mayek
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend