U+A20B "ꈋ" Yi Syllable Kex Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꈋ
U+A20B "ꈋ" Yi Syllable Kex is a character from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable used in the standardized Modern Yi language spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China. This character corresponds to the phonetic syllable "kex" in the Liangshan dialect of Yi, where it carries a specific tone as part of the syllabary system developed for writing the language. The Yi syllabary, encoded in Unicode's Yi Syllables block, was standardized in the 1970s and 1980s to promote literacy and preserve the language, and characters like ꈋ are used in literature, education, and daily communication within Yi communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A20B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Kex |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꈋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꈋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x88 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA20B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A20B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua20b |