U+A28B "ꊋ" Yi Syllable We Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A28B "ꊋ" Yi Syllable We is a representation of the syllable "we" in the Yi language, specifically within the standardized Yi script used for writing the Nuosu language of the Yi people in southwestern China. This character is part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over a thousand syllabic characters that form the core of the modern Yi writing system. The script was officially codified by the Chinese government in the 1980s, and each syllable character corresponds to a specific phonetic value, with "ꊋ" representing the sound "we" with a particular tone, typically the high or mid tone depending on context.

General Properties

Code Point U+A28B
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable We
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꊋ
HTML Hex Encoding ꊋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x8A 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA28B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A28B
C/C++/Java Escape \ua28b

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