U+A183 "ꆃ" Yi Syllable Niep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꆃ
U+A183 "ꆃ" Yi Syllable Niep is a glyph from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable used in the modern standardized form of the Yi language, which is spoken primarily in southwestern China by the Yi ethnic group. This character corresponds to the phonetic value "niep" and is part of a syllabary that was developed to unify the diverse dialects of Yi into a written system. In practical terms, "ꆃ" functions as a lexical unit within Yi texts, contributing to the representation of words and meanings in a language that has a rich oral and written tradition, now preserved in digital form through Unicode encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A183 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Niep |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꆃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꆃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x86 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA183 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A183 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua183 |