U+A2BD "ꊽ" Yi Syllable Cot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꊽ
U+A2BD "ꊽ" Yi Syllable Cot is a specific glyph used in the modern Yi script, which is employed to write the Yi (Nuosu) language spoken by millions of people in southwestern China, particularly in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. This character represents a distinct syllable in the Yi language, and like all Yi syllables in Unicode, it is encoded in the block U+A000 to U+A4CF, which was standardized to preserve and support the written form of the language for digital communication. The syllable "cot" is one of many such characters that allow for accurate transcription and reading of Yi texts, reflecting the phonetic structure of the language where each symbol corresponds to a single syllable with its own tone.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A2BD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Cot |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꊽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꊽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8A 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA2BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A2BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua2bd |