U+A0E8 "ꃨ" Yi Syllable Vie Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A0E8 "ꃨ" Yi Syllable Vie is a specific glyph within the Yi script, which is used for writing the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character represents a distinct syllable in the Yi phonetic system, corresponding to the sound "vie" in the standard Liangshan dialect. It forms part of a larger syllabary created in the 1970s, based on the traditional Yi logographic script, and is encoded in the Unicode Standard as a means of digitally representing this unique and culturally significant writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+A0E8
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Vie
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꃨ
HTML Hex Encoding ꃨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x83 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA0E8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A0E8
C/C++/Java Escape \ua0e8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Yi
Script Extensions Yi
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter