U+A25F "ꉟ" Yi Syllable Ngiep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꉟ
U+A25F "ꉟ" Yi Syllable Ngiep is a specific glyph within the Yi script, a syllabary historically used to write the Yi languages spoken by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This character represents the syllable "ngiep," which is part of the standardized Modern Yi writing system that was officially codified in the 1970s and 1980s to facilitate literacy and preservation of the language. The Yi Syllabary block in Unicode includes over a thousand such syllables, each corresponding to a distinct sound and tone, and "ꉟ" is one of the many characters that contribute to the representation of Yi linguistic heritage in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A25F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ngiep |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꉟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꉟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x89 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA25F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A25F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua25f |