U+A029 "ꀩ" Yi Syllable Bex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꀩ
U+A029 "ꀩ" Yi Syllable Bex is a character from the Yi script, specifically used to represent a syllable in the Nasu or Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China. This script was standardized in the 1970s and consists of over 1,000 syllabic characters, each corresponding to a distinct syllable in the Yi language. The character "ꀩ" is classified under U+A000 to U+A48F in the Unicode standard, which encodes the traditional Yi syllabary, and its pronunciation "bex" indicates a specific tone and sound within the language's phonetic system, contributing to the preservation and digital representation of this minority language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A029 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Bex |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꀩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꀩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x80 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA029 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A029 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua029 |