U+A156 "ꅖ" Yi Syllable Ndie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꅖ
U+A156 "ꅖ" Yi Syllable Ndie is a character from the Yi script, specifically the Liangshan Standard Yi dialect used for the Nuosu language in southwestern China. It represents a distinct syllabic sound in the language, pronounced with a specific tone, and is part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the core syllables of the modern Yi writing system standardized in the 1970s to preserve and promote literacy among the Yi people. This character, like others in its set, is essential for accurately representing the phonetic and tonal structure of the Nuosu language in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A156 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ndie |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꅖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꅖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x85 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA156 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A156 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua156 |