U+A1B6 "ꆶ" Yi Syllable Hlyr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꆶ
U+A1B6 "ꆶ" Yi Syllable Hlyr is a specific glyph from the modern Yi script, used primarily for writing the Nuosu language spoken in southwestern China. This character represents a syllable pronounced as "hlyr," with the "hl" indicating a voiceless lateral sound and the "yr" denoting a specific tone that carries linguistic meaning in Nuosu. As part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, it belongs to a standardized set of 1,164 syllables that encode the syllabary developed in the 1970s to promote literacy and preserve the language's phonetic and tonal distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A1B6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hlyr |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꆶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꆶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x86 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA1B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A1B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua1b6 |