U+A257 "ꉗ" Yi Syllable Hxox Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꉗ
U+A257 "ꉗ" Yi Syllable Hxox is part of the Yi script block, specifically used for writing the Nuosu language, also known as Northern Yi, spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character represents a syllable pronounced as "hxox," where the "hx" denotes a specific aspirated consonant sound unique to the Yi phonetic system, and the "ox" indicates a particular tone, typically a mid or low rising tone in standard Yi romanization. It is one of many syllabic characters in the modern standardized Yi script, which was developed from traditional Yi logographic writing to enable literacy and digital encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A257 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hxox |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꉗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꉗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x89 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA257 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A257 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua257 |