U+A01A "ꀚ" Yi Syllable Biet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꀚ
U+A01A "ꀚ" Yi Syllable Biet is a character from the Yi Syllables block, specifically representing a syllable in the standardized Yi script used for the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China. This character denotes the sound "biet," and its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital communication and preservation of the Yi writing system, which was standardized in the 1970s based on the Liangshan dialect. The Yi script itself is a syllabary, with each character encoding a distinct syllable rather than an individual consonant or vowel, and "ꀚ" contributes to the rich linguistic heritage of the Yi ethnic group, allowing for typed text, data processing, and cultural exchange across modern platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A01A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Biet |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꀚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꀚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x80 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA01A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A01A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua01a |