U+A1E5 "ꇥ" Yi Syllable Gap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꇥ
U+A1E5 "ꇥ" Yi Syllable Gap is a specific glyph from the Yi script, a syllabary used for writing the Yi languages of southwestern China. It represents the distinct syllable "gap" and belongs to the standardized Yi Syllables block of Unicode, which was added to support the Nuosu and other Yi dialects. This character is not a punctuation mark but a phonetic symbol, contributing to the accurate transcription of Yi speech sounds where the syllable "gap" plays a role in the language's tonal and consonantal system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A1E5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Gap |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꇥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꇥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x87 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA1E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A1E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua1e5 |