U+A318 "ꌘ" Yi Syllable Sox Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A318 "ꌘ" Yi Syllable Sox is a grapheme from the Yi script, used primarily to write the Yi language spoken by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This specific syllable, "sox," represents a particular phonetic sound—with the "x" indicating a specific tone, typically a low or creaky tone in the Standard Liangshan Yi dialect. As part of the unified Yi syllabary encoded in the Unicode Standard, it enables digital representation and processing of this indigenous writing system, which was standardized in the 1970s based on the Liangshan dialect. The character appears in the Yi Syllables block and is essential for accurate transcription and communication in written Yi, reflecting both linguistic tradition and modern text encoding efforts.

General Properties

Code Point U+A318
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Sox
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꌘ
HTML Hex Encoding ꌘ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x8C 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA318
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A318
C/C++/Java Escape \ua318

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