U+A23F "ꈿ" Yi Syllable Mgep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꈿ
U+A23F "ꈿ" Yi Syllable Mgep is a glyph from the Yi script used to write the Nuosu language primarily spoken in the Liangshan region of southwestern China. This specific syllable represents the pronunciation "mgep" and functions as a phonetic component within the syllabary, which was standardized in the 1970s to promote literacy among the Yi people. The character belongs to the Yi Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, encoding the traditional writing system that uses distinct shapes for each syllable rather than separate letters for consonants and vowels.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A23F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Mgep |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꈿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꈿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x88 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA23F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A23F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua23f |