U+A285 "ꊅ" Yi Syllable Wuo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꊅ
U+A285 "ꊅ" Yi Syllable Wuo is a character from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable in the standardized Yi language used primarily by the Yi ethnic group in China. This character belongs to the Yi Syllables block of Unicode, which was added to support the modern Yi script known as Nuosu or Liangshan Yi, a syllabic writing system that was officially standardized in the 1970s. The syllable "Wuo" is one of many such characters that encode distinct phonetic sounds in the Yi language, preserving its linguistic and cultural heritage for digital text and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A285 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Wuo |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꊅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꊅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8A 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA285 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A285 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua285 |