U+A0B9 "ꂹ" Yi Syllable Muot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꂹ
U+A0B9 "ꂹ" Yi Syllable Muot is part of the Yi Syllables block, which encodes the script used for the Yi language spoken primarily in southwestern China. This specific character represents the syllable "muot" and is used in the modern standard Yi script, known as Nuosu or Liangshan Yi, which was standardized in the 1970s for written communication. The Yi script is a syllabary, meaning each character corresponds to a specific syllable rather than an individual phoneme, and U+A0B9 contributes to the comprehensive set of 1,165 syllables that cover the tonal and phonetic variations of the Nuosu dialect. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and global accessibility for Yi language speakers and researchers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A0B9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Muot |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꂹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꂹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x82 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA0B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A0B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua0b9 |