U+A16E "ꅮ" Yi Syllable Hnie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꅮ
U+A16E "ꅮ" Yi Syllable Hnie is a logographic symbol from the modern standardized Yi script, used primarily to write the Yi language spoken by the Yi people in China. This particular syllable, pronounced "hnie," represents a distinct phonetic unit in the language, forming part of a structured syllabary that was codified in the 1970s based on the traditional Liangshan Yi writing system. It appears in texts and digital media as a single character, contributing to the preservation and transmission of Yi linguistic and cultural heritage through modern computing standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A16E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hnie |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꅮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꅮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x85 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA16E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A16E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua16e |