U+A004 "ꀄ" Yi Syllable Iet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꀄ
U+A004 "ꀄ" Yi Syllable Iet is a glyph from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended block, specifically representing a syllable in the modern Standard Yi script used for the Nuosu language. This character is pronounced as "iet," a sound that fits within the rich phonetic system of Yi, an official language of China spoken by the Yi ethnic minority in the southwestern regions of the country. The Yi script itself is a syllabary, where each character typically corresponds to a single syllable, and U+A004 is one of many such symbols that help preserve and standardize the written form of this traditionally oral language for use in literature, education, and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A004 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Iet |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꀄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꀄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x80 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA004 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A004 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua004 |