U+1999 NEW TAI LUE LETTER LOW MA

The Unicode character U+1999, officially named NEW TAI LUE LETTER LOW MA, was introduced in Unicode version 4.1. It is part of the New Tai Lue block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Talu script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.