U+A029 "ꀩ" Yi Syllable Bex Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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