U+A311 "ꌑ" Yi Syllable Sax Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꌑ
U+A311 "ꌑ" Yi Syllable Sax is part the Yi script, used primarily for writing the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people of southwestern China. This specific syllable represents the sound "sax" and belongs to a modern standardized syllabary that was developed in the 1970s and later encoded into Unicode as part of the Yi Syllables block. The character carries a traditional, rounded cursive shape typical of the Yi script, and it is employed in written Nuosu for both everyday communication and cultural preservation, appearing in texts ranging from folk songs to contemporary literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A311 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Sax |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꌑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꌑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8C 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA311 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A311 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua311 |