U+A2EF "ꋯ" Yi Syllable Nzi Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A2EF "ꋯ" Yi Syllable Nzi is a specific symbol within the Yi script, an alphasyllabary historically used for writing the Yi languages of southwestern China. This particular character represents a phonetic syllable in the standardized modern Yi syllabary, where it corresponds to the sound "nzi" (pronounced like "n-dzee"). The Yi script was standardized in the 1980s, and this character is part of the modern Yi syllable block, used in educational and literary contexts to record the Nuosu form of the Yi language.

General Properties

Code Point U+A2EF
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Nzi
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꋯ
HTML Hex Encoding ꋯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x8B 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA2EF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A2EF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua2ef

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