U+A005 "ꀅ" Yi Syllable Iex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꀅ
U+A005 "ꀅ" Yi Syllable Iex is part of the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi languages spoken by ethnic Yi people in southwestern China, particularly in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "iex" in the Liangshan Standard Yi dialect, where the letter "x" at the end indicates a particular tone, specifically the low falling tone. The Yi script is a syllabary, meaning each character corresponds to a full syllable, and the character set was standardized and added to Unicode in the early 2000s to support digital communication and preserve the linguistic heritage of the Yi community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A005 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Iex |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꀅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꀅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x80 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA005 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A005 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua005 |