U+A09D "ꂝ" Yi Syllable Hmuo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꂝ
U+A09D "ꂝ" Yi Syllable Hmuo is a character from the Yi script, specifically used to represent the syllable "hmuo" in the modern standardized form of the Yi language, which is spoken primarily in the Liangshan region of China. This syllabary, distinct from the traditional Yi script, was developed to phonetically transcribe the Northern Yi dialect and is encoded in the Unicode block ranging from U+A000 to U+A4CF. The character visually resembles a stylized, brush-like glyph that is part of a larger writing system designed for literacy and education among Yi-speaking communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A09D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hmuo |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꂝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꂝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x82 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA09D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A09D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua09d |