U+A096 "ꂖ" Yi Syllable Hmie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꂖ
U+A096 "ꂖ" Yi Syllable Hmie is a symbol from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable used in the Nuosu language, a member of the Yi language family spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character falls within the Yi Syllables block of Unicode and is part of a standardized set of 1,165 syllables that were encoded to support the modern literary form of the Liangshan Yi dialect. Its phonetic value corresponds to the sound "hmie," which is produced by nasalizing the vowel after an initial aspirated 'm' sound, and it is used in writing to represent words or morphemes that carry this specific pronunciation in the Nuosu orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A096 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hmie |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꂖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꂖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x82 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA096 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A096 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua096 |