U+A09A "ꂚ" Yi Syllable Hma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꂚ
U+A09A "ꂚ" Yi Syllable Hma is a grapheme from the modern Yi script, also known as Nuosu, which is used to write the Yi language primarily spoken in the Liangshan region of southwestern China. This particular character represents a specific syllable in the Yi syllabary, pronounced as "hma," with a tone that is a high or mid-level tone depending on dialectical variation. The Yi script, standardized in the 1980s based on the traditional Liangshan syllabary, consists of 756 characters, each corresponding to a distinct syllable, and is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text processing for this minority language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A09A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hma |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꂚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꂚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x82 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA09A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A09A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua09a |