U+1984 "ᦄ" New Tai Lue Letter High Nga Unicode Character

U+1984 "ᦄ" New Tai Lue Letter High Nga is a character in the New Tai Lue script, which is used to write the Tai Lü language spoken primarily in parts of China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. This specific letter represents the high tone version of the nasal "nga" sound, akin to the "ng" in the English word "sing". It is part of a modernized reform of the traditional Tai Lue script, introduced in the 1950s to improve literacy by distinguishing tonal differences through separate letter forms rather than diacritics. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the New Tai Lue block, which was added in version 4.1 in 2005 to support digital text processing and preservation of the language.