U+A10A "ꄊ" Yi Syllable Dap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꄊ
U+A10A "ꄊ" Yi Syllable Dap is part of the Yi script, used primarily to write the Yi (or Nuosu) language spoken by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China, particularly in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. This specific character represents the syllable "dap," which carries a mid-level tone, and is encoded in the Yi Syllables block of Unicode, a segment dedicated to the classical Yi writing system standardized in the 1970s. Its use facilitates the accurate digital representation of Nuosu, a language with a rich oral and written tradition, and it is commonly employed in modern text processing, including in poetry, education, and cultural preservation efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A10A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Dap |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꄊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꄊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x84 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA10A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A10A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua10a |