U+A21B "ꈛ" Yi Syllable Ggax Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꈛ
U+A21B "ꈛ" Yi Syllable Ggax is part of the Yi script used for writing the Nuosu language spoken primarily in Sichuan province in southwestern China. This specific character represents a syllable in the Yi language's syllabary system and is composed of an initial consonant "gg" followed by a final vowel or tone, with the "ax" tone marker indicating a particular pitch pattern in the spoken language. The Yi script, standardized in the 1970s and later encoded in Unicode, utilizes a syllabic writing system where each distinct symbol corresponds to a unique syllable and tone combination, making characters like U+A21B essential for accurately representing the phonetics and tonal nuances of the Nuosu language in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A21B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ggax |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꈛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꈛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x88 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA21B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A21B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua21b |