U+A1A8 "ꆨ" Yi Syllable Hlex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꆨ
U+A1A8 "ꆨ" Yi Syllable Hlex is a specific character within the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character represents a syllable with a particular phonetic value in the Standard Yi language, specifically the sound "hlex" which is a voiceless, velar fricative followed by a mid or low tone, depending on the dialect. It is part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which includes over a thousand characters designed to encode the syllabary system standardized by the Chinese government.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A1A8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hlex |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꆨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꆨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x86 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA1A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A1A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua1a8 |