U+A078 "ꁸ" Yi Syllable Nbi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꁸ
U+A078 "ꁸ" Yi Syllable Nbi is a specific glyph within the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China, particularly in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan. This character represents a particular syllable in the standardized Yi syllabary, and its pronunciation is phonetically rendered as "nbi" in the Romanized transliteration system. The Yi script, of which this character is a part, was modernized in the 1970s and 1980s to create a standardized set of 819 syllables, enabling wider literacy and consistent representation of the Nuosu dialect of the Yi language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A078 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Nbi |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꁸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꁸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x81 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA078 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A078 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua078 |