U+A2C8 "ꋈ" Yi Syllable Curx Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꋈ
U+A2C8 "ꋈ" Yi Syllable Curx is a specific glyph used in the written form of the Yi language, primarily spoken in the Liangshan region of China, and it forms part of the Yi Syllables block within the Unicode standard. This particular syllable represents the phonetic sound "curx" in the modern standard Yi script, which is a syllabary system developed in the 1970s to transcribe the Yi language. The character is constructed from components that denote both the consonant and vowel tones, as the Yi script is tonal and each syllable carries a specific pitch. In digital text, it allows for the accurate representation of this Yi language sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A2C8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Curx |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꋈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꋈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8B 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA2C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A2C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua2c8 |