U+A29C "ꊜ" Yi Syllable Zox Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꊜ
U+A29C "ꊜ" Yi Syllable Zox is a glyph from the Unified Yi Syllabary block, representing a specific syllable used in the modern Standard Yi language, also known as Nuosu, which is spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character corresponds to the Romanized Yi spelling "zox," and its pronunciation involves a high-rising tone, as is characteristic of the Yi script’s tonal system. The Yi Syllabary was added to the Unicode Standard to support the written form of the Nuosu language, which uses a unique set of syllabic characters derived from the traditional Yi script, and each syllable like Zox serves as a distinct lexical building block for words in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A29C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Zox |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꊜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꊜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8A 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA29C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A29C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua29c |