U+A138 "ꄸ" Yi Syllable Ddi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꄸ
U+A138 "ꄸ" Yi Syllable Ddi is a character from the Yi script, specifically used to represent the syllable "ddi" in the standardized Modern Yi language, which is spoken by the Yi ethnic group primarily in southwestern China. This character is part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses a syllabary system developed in the 1970s to write the Liangshan dialect of Yi. It serves as a phonetic unit in written Yi, contributing to the preservation and communication of the language's distinct tonal and syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A138 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ddi |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꄸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꄸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x84 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA138 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A138 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua138 |