U+A1F9 "ꇹ" Yi Syllable Kix Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꇹ
U+A1F9 "ꇹ" Yi Syllable Kix is a specific character within the Yi script, a syllabic writing system historically used for the Yi languages of southwestern China. This particular syllable, pronounced "kix," belongs to the modern standardized Yi syllabary, which was created in the 1970s to unify and reform the traditional script for educational and official use. The character represents a distinct phonetic unit in the Yi language, serving as a written form for a spoken syllable with a specific tone, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to enable digital text processing and preservation of this minority language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A1F9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Kix |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꇹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꇹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x87 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA1F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A1F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua1f9 |