U+A17F "ꅿ" Yi Syllable Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꅿ
U+A17F "ꅿ" Yi Syllable Ni is a glyph representing a specific syllable in the modern Yi script (Nuosu language), used primarily in the Liangshan region of southwestern China. It corresponds to the pronunciation "ni" and forms part of the standardized syllabary established in the 1970s to write the Nuosu dialect of the Yi language. This character is encoded in the Yi Syllables block of Unicode, which contains 1,165 syllables that enable digital representation and preservation of written Yi, reflecting the language's tonal nature through distinct character forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A17F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ni |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꅿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꅿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x85 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA17F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A17F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua17f |