U+A14C "ꅌ" Yi Syllable Ddux Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A14C "ꅌ" Yi Syllable Ddux is a letter from the Yi script, used primarily to write the Nuosu language, a member of the Loloish branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in southwestern China, particularly in Sichuan province. This specific syllable represents the sound pronounced as "ddux" in the standard romanization of Nuosu, and it belongs to the broad category of syllables in the Yi script that encode both consonant and vowel tones, reflecting the tonal nature of the language. The Yi Syllable Ddux is part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over a thousand such characters, each corresponding to a distinct syllable with a specific tone in the modern standardized form of the script.

General Properties

Code Point U+A14C
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Ddux
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꅌ
HTML Hex Encoding ꅌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x85 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA14C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A14C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua14c

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