U+A0EA "ꃪ" Yi Syllable Vat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꃪ
U+A0EA "ꃪ" Yi Syllable Vat is part of the Yi Syllables block, which encodes the traditional script used for the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China, particularly in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. This specific character represents a syllable with the phonetic value "vat," where the initial consonant is a voiced labiodental fricative and the final is a low falling tone, as per the standard romanization of the Liangshan Yi dialect. The Yi script is a unique syllabary that was standardized in the 1970s, and each character like "ꃪ" corresponds to a distinct syllable, helping to preserve and promote the written form of the Yi language in modern digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A0EA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Vat |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꃪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꃪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x83 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA0EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A0EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua0ea |