U+A054 "ꁔ" Yi Syllable Pyrx Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꁔ
U+A054 "ꁔ" Yi Syllable Pyrx is a specific symbol from the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi language spoken by the Yi ethnic group in China. This character represents a particular syllable in the syllabary, where it corresponds to a phonetic combination pronounced as "pyrx" in the Liangshan dialect's Standard Yi spelling system. It belongs to the "Yi Syllables" block of Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and facilitate the digital representation of this traditionally logographic and later standardized syllabic writing system. Despite its specific linguistic role, the character appears as a stylized vertical or angular glyph in most fonts, distinct from Latin or CJK characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A054 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Pyrx |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꁔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꁔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x81 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA054 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A054 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua054 |