U+A228 "ꈨ" Yi Syllable Gge Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꈨ
U+A228 "ꈨ" Yi Syllable Gge is a component of the Yi script, specifically belonging to the modern standardized syllabary known as "Nuosu" or "Liangshan Yi," which is used to write the Yi language spoken by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This character represents a distinct syllable pronounced "gge" and is one of many syllabic units that encode the tonal and phonetic structure of the language. The Yi syllabary was encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital preservation and communication for a writing system with a rich cultural history, and "ꈨ" serves as a functional unit in written Yi texts, contributing to the accurate representation of spoken Yi in electronic formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A228 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Gge |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꈨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꈨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x88 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA228 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A228 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua228 |