U+A278 "ꉸ" Yi Syllable Huop Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A278 "ꉸ" Yi Syllable Huop is part of the Yi Syllables block, representing a specific syllabic sound in the modern standardized Yi script, known as Nuosu or Liangshan Yi, which is used to write the Yi language spoken in parts of southwestern China. This character corresponds to the syllable pronounced "huop" in the standard romanization system, and it belongs to a set of 1,164 syllabic characters encoded in Unicode to facilitate digital representation and preservation of the Yi writing system, which was standardized in the 1980s based on the Liangshan dialect.

General Properties

Code Point U+A278
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Huop
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꉸ
HTML Hex Encoding ꉸ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x89 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA278
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A278
C/C++/Java Escape \ua278

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