U+A16C "ꅬ" Yi Syllable Hniet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꅬ
U+A16C "ꅬ" Yi Syllable Hniet is part of the Yi script, which is used primarily to write the Nuosu language, a major variety of Yi spoken in southwestern China. This specific character represents a single syllable in the Standard Yi orthography, where "hniet" denotes a particular phonetic sound, likely involving a retroflex or nasal initial consonant with a specific tonal value. The Yi Syllabary block in Unicode, covering characters starting from U+A000, was encoded to preserve and digitally support this unique and culturally significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A16C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hniet |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꅬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꅬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x85 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA16C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A16C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua16c |