U+A24C "ꉌ" Yi Syllable Hxie Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A24C "ꉌ" Yi Syllable Hxie is a character from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllabic unit in the standardized Modern Yi language used primarily by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This character corresponds to the syllable pronounced as "hxie," which is part of the syllabary designed to write the Liangshan dialect of Yi. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Yi Syllables block, which includes 1,165 characters that cover the basic phonetic inventory of the language, making it essential for digital text representation and preservation of Yi linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+A24C
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Hxie
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꉌ
HTML Hex Encoding ꉌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x89 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA24C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A24C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua24c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Yi
Script Extensions Yi
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter