U+A219 "ꈙ" Yi Syllable Ggiep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꈙ
U+A219 "ꈙ" Yi Syllable Ggiep is a part of the Yi script used to write the Yi languages, primarily the Liangshan Standard dialect spoken by the Yi people in China. Specifically, it represents a syllable with a low, creaky or stopped tone, as indicated by the final "p" in its phonetic transcription, and its shape and classification place it within the rich set of Yi characters that encode distinct syllabic sounds rather than individual letters. Historically, this character belongs to the modern standardized Yi syllabary, which was developed from traditional logographic scripts in the 1970s and formally encoded in Unicode to preserve and digitally support the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A219 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ggiep |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꈙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꈙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x88 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA219 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A219 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua219 |