U+A0C8 "ꃈ" Yi Syllable Mur Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꃈ
U+A0C8 "ꃈ" Yi Syllable Mur is a glyph from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable used in the standardized modern Yi language, which is spoken primarily by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This character corresponds to the sound "mur" and is part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which was developed to encode the syllabic writing system reformed in the 1970s by the Chinese government. The character is composed of distinct strokes typical of the Yi script, where each symbol represents a full syllable, including tone information, and "ꃈ" is specifically used in Yi linguistic and cultural contexts, such as in literature, education, and official documentation within the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A0C8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Mur |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꃈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꃈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x83 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA0C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A0C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua0c8 |