U+A020 "ꀠ" Yi Syllable Ba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Yi
Script Extensions Yi
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter