U+A08D "ꂍ" Yi Syllable Nby Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A08D "ꂍ" Yi Syllable Nby is a character from the Yi script, specifically used for writing the Yi language, an official language in parts of southwestern China. This character represents a syllable pronounced as "nby" and is part of the modern standardized Yi syllabary, which was developed in the 1970s to unify various regional Yi writing systems. Its design reflects the unique, angular strokes typical of Yi script, and it falls within the Yi Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes over a thousand such syllables for linguistic and cultural preservation.

General Properties

Code Point U+A08D
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Nby
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꂍ
HTML Hex Encoding ꂍ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x82 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA08D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A08D
C/C++/Java Escape \ua08d

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