U+A1FA "ꇺ" Yi Syllable Ki Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꇺ
U+A1FA "ꇺ" Yi Syllable Ki is a specific glyph from the Yi script, an ideographic writing system traditionally used to write the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character represents the syllable "ki" and is part of the broader Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which was included to support the modern standardized version of the script known as Standard Yi. The Yi script itself is historically syllabic, with each symbol corresponding to a distinct syllable in the language, and U+A1FA is one of many characters encoding the phonetic inventory of Yi. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and enable digital communication in a language spoken by millions, facilitating cultural and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A1FA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ki |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꇺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꇺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x87 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA1FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A1FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua1fa |