U+A045 "ꁅ" Yi Syllable Puop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꁅ
U+A045 "ꁅ" Yi Syllable Puop is a specific glyph from the Yi script, which is used primarily for writing the Nuosu language, a member of the Lolo-Burmese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China. This character represents a single syllable in the Nuosu language, with the pronunciation "puop" (often described with a low or mid tone), and it is part of the standardized Yi syllabary that was developed in the 1970s to modernize and promote the written form of the language. As one of over a thousand syllables in the Yi block of Unicode, "ꁅ" helps preserve and digitally encode a vital element of Yi cultural and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A045 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Puop |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꁅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꁅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x81 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA045 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A045 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua045 |