U+A024 "ꀤ" Yi Syllable Buop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꀤ
U+A024 "ꀤ" Yi Syllable Buop is a character from the Yi syllabary, which was standardized for writing the Nuosu (or Northern Yi) language spoken primarily in southwestern China. This specific syllable, pronounced as "buop," represents a phonetic unit in a script that was officially codified in the 1980s to replace traditional logographic Yi writing. The character appears in the Yi Syllables block of Unicode and is used in modern literary works, educational materials, and official documentation for the Nuosu people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A024 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Buop |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꀤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꀤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x80 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA024 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A024 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua024 |