U+A229 "ꈩ" Yi Syllable Ggep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꈩ
U+A229 "ꈩ" Yi Syllable Ggep is a specific glyph from the Yi script, a writing system historically used for the Yi language primarily spoken in southwestern China. This particular syllable, pronounced roughly as "ggep," belongs to the standard set of 1,165 Yi syllables encoded in the Unicode Standard, which was derived from the standardized modern Yi script introduced in 1974. The character represents a distinct phonetic unit within the language's tonal system, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text processing, electronic communication, and cultural preservation efforts for the Yi language can proceed accurately across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A229 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ggep |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꈩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꈩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x88 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA229 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A229 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua229 |