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Glyph for U+ABE2
Source: Noto Sans MeeteiMayek

U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum

U+ABE2 was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block U+ABC0 to U+ABFF Meetei Mayek in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Meitei Mayek script. The character is also known as i.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+ABE2 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Meitei script (Meitei: ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Meitei Mayek, lit. 'Meitei writing system'), also known as the Meetei script (Meitei: ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Meetei Mayek, lit. 'Meetei writing system'), is an abugida used for the Meitei language, the official language of Manipur state and one of the 22 official languages of India. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. It is also popularly known as the Kanglei script (Meitei: ꯀꯪꯂꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ/ꯀꯪꯂꯩ ꯏꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Kanglei Mayek/Kanglei Iyek) and the Kok Sam Lai script (Meitei: ꯀꯣꯛ ꯁꯝ ꯂꯥꯏ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, romanized: Kok Sam Lai Mayek). Its earliest known evidence of existence dates back to the 6th century AD coins, engraving the Meitei letters, as verified by the various publications of the National Sahitya Akademi. It was used until the 18th century, when it was replaced by the Bengali alphabet. A few manuscripts survive. In the 20th century, the script has experienced a resurgence, and is again being used. Starting from 2021, Meitei script (officially known as Meetei Mayek) was officially used by the Government of Manipur, along with the Bengali-Assamese script, to write the Meitei language, as per "The Manipur Official Language (Amendment) Act, 2021".

Since Meitei does not have voiced consonants, there are only fifteen consonant letters used for native words, plus three letters for pure vowels. Nine additional consonant letters inherited from the Indic languages are available for borrowings. There are seven vowel diacritics and a final consonant (/ŋ/) diacritic. The names of the twenty-seven letters are not only phonetic names, but also based on parts of the human body.

Representations

System Representation
44002
UTF-8 EA AF A2
UTF-16 AB E2
UTF-32 00 00 AB E2
URL-Quoted %EA%AF%A2
HTML hex reference ꯢ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ꯢ
alias i

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 5.2 (2009)
Unicode Name MEETEI MAYEK LETTER I LONSUM
Unicode 1 Name
Block Meetei Mayek
General Category Other Letter
Script Meitei Mayek
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Case Folding Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant_Final
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Alphabetic Letter
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+ABE2 Meetei Mayek Letter I Lonsum
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R