U+A171 "ꅱ" Yi Syllable Hnax Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A171 "ꅱ" Yi Syllable Hnax is a character from the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi (or Nuosu) language spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China. This specific syllable represents a particular sound in that language, combining the consonant "hn" with the vowel "ax," where the final "x" indicates a specific tonal value in the standard romanization of the Nuosu dialect. As part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to support the digital representation and preservation of the Yi writing system, which was standardized in the 1980s based on the Liangshan dialect.

General Properties

Code Point U+A171
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Hnax
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꅱ
HTML Hex Encoding ꅱ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x85 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA171
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A171
C/C++/Java Escape \ua171

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