U+A020 "ꀠ" Yi Syllable Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꀠ
U+A020 "ꀠ" Yi Syllable Ba is part of the Yi script, specifically used for writing the Liangshan dialect of the Yi language spoken in southwestern China. This character represents a single syllable pronounced "ba" and is one of over a thousand syllables encoded in the Yi Syllables block, which was added to Unicode to standardize the modern, standardized form of the script. The Yi script itself has a rich history, with the modern syllabary being reformed from traditional logographic characters to a phonetic system, making "ꀠ" a key component in the written communication of Yi-speaking communities today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A020 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ba |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꀠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꀠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x80 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA020 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A020 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua020 |