U+A2EC "ꋬ" Yi Syllable Zzyr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꋬ
U+A2EC "ꋬ" Yi Syllable Zzyr is a glyph from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable in the Liangshan Yi language as used in a standardized form to write the Nuosu language of southwestern China. This character forms part of the modern Yi syllabary, which was officially compiled in the 1970s and includes over 800 distinct syllables to accurately reflect the phonological structure of Nuosu. The pronunciation "zzyr" corresponds to a specific tone and phoneme combination that distinguishes meaning in spoken Yi, and its inclusion in Unicode supports digital preservation and communication for the approximately two million speakers of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A2EC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Zzyr |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꋬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꋬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8B 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA2EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A2EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua2ec |