U+1989 "ᦉ" New Tai Lue Letter High Sa Unicode Character

U+1989 "ᦉ" New Tai Lue Letter High Sa is a consonant in the New Tai Lue script, which was developed in the 1950s for writing the Tai Lue language spoken primarily in the Xishuangbanna region of Yunnan, China, and parts of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This character represents the high tone version of the sound /s/ and is part of a modern standardized orthography that replaced the older Tai Tham script to simplify printing and education. The New Tai Lue block, which includes this letter, was added to Unicode in version 4.0 released in 2003, enabling digital representation of the script for use in electronic texts and communications.