U+A27A "ꉺ" Yi Syllable Hox Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꉺ
U+A27A "ꉺ" Yi Syllable Hox is a glyph from the Yi script, specifically the standardized modern Yi syllabary used for writing the Nuosu language of southwestern China. This character represents the syllable pronounced "hox" and belongs to a writing system that was officially codified in the 1970s to replace a large and non-standard set of traditional Yi characters. The script is widely employed in formal education, publishing, and digital communication among the Nuosu people, making "ꉺ" part of a living writing system that integrates ancient tradition with modern Unicode standardization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A27A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Hox |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꉺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꉺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x89 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA27A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A27A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua27a |