U+A309 "ꌉ" Yi Syllable Sit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꌉ
U+A309 "ꌉ" Yi Syllable Sit is part of the Yi Syllables block, which encodes the standardized script used for the Yi language spoken primarily in southwestern China. This specific character represents the syllable "sit" in the Yi writing system, where each symbol corresponds to a distinct syllable rather than an individual phoneme. The Yi script, traditionally logographic and later standardized into a syllabary by the Chinese government in the 1970s, is used for recording the Nuosu dialect of Yi. U+A309 is one of over 1,200 such syllables in the Unicode standard, enabling digital representation and processing of the Yi language across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A309 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Sit |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꌉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꌉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8C 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA309 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A309 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua309 |