U+A0F8 "ꃸ" Yi Syllable Vurx Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꃸ
U+A0F8 "ꃸ" Yi Syllable Vurx is part of the Yi Syllables block, which encodes the script used for the Yi language, primarily spoken by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "vurx" in the standardized Liangshan dialect of Yi, with the final "x" indicating a particular tone, likely a high or rising tone in the Romanized Yi orthography. It is one of hundreds of syllables in the Modern Yi script, a syllabary reformed in the 1970s for consistent representation of spoken Yi, and its inclusion in Unicode supports digital communication, text processing, and preservation of the Yi language and culture in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A0F8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Vurx |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꃸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꃸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x83 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA0F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A0F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua0f8 |