U+A122 "ꄢ" Yi Syllable Tax Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A122 "ꄢ" Yi Syllable Tax is part of the Yi script, used primarily for writing the Yi language spoken by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This specific character represents a syllable in the standardized modern Yi syllabary, which was developed in the 1970s to unify various regional scripts. The syllable "tax" corresponds to a particular sound in the Yi language, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text and computing systems can accurately represent this linguistic element. As a component of the Yi script's encoding, it helps preserve and facilitate the written communication of one of China's recognized minority languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+A122
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Tax
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꄢ
HTML Hex Encoding ꄢ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x84 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA122
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A122
C/C++/Java Escape \ua122

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