U+A039 "ꀹ" Yi Syllable Pix Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A039 "ꀹ" Yi Syllable Pix is a specific glyph from the Yi script, an ideographic writing system historically used for the Yi language in parts of China, particularly in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. This character belongs to the Yi Syllables block of Unicode, where each character represents a distinct syllable in the Nuosu or Standard Yi language, with "pix" indicating a particular phonetic value and tone. The Yi script has a ancient history, but the modern standardized version encoded in Unicode was developed in the 1970s and includes over 1,100 such syllables to support written communication and cultural preservation for the Yi people.

General Properties

Code Point U+A039
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Pix
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꀹ
HTML Hex Encoding ꀹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x80 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA039
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A039
C/C++/Java Escape \ua039

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