U+A2E0 "ꋠ" Yi Syllable Zze Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A2E0 "ꋠ" Yi Syllable Zze is a specific glyph within the Yi Syllables block, which was added to the Unicode standard as part of version 3.0 in 1999 to support the constructed Yi script used for writing the Nuosu language of the Yi people in China. This character represents a distinct syllable in the Nuosu phonological system, with "Zze" indicating a particular consonant sound combined with a vowel, and its usage is primarily confined to literary and official contexts within the Nuosu-speaking regions. The inclusion of this character reflects the broader effort to encode the complete set of 1,164 standardized Yi syllables, each corresponding to a unique combination of a consonant and a vowel sound, as part of a modern standardized script that replaced the traditional logographic Yi writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+A2E0
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Zze
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꋠ
HTML Hex Encoding ꋠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x8B 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA2E0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A2E0
C/C++/Java Escape \ua2e0

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