U+A31A "ꌚ" Yi Syllable Sop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꌚ
U+A31A "ꌚ" Yi Syllable Sop is a specific glyph from the Yi script, used primarily for writing the Yi language spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China. This character represents a syllable pronounced as "so" with a particular tone, as the Yi script is a syllabary where each symbol corresponds to a distinct syllable and tone. Historically, the Yi script has several regional variations, but the standardized Modern Yi syllabary, codified in the 1970s, includes this character as part of its official set for everyday communication and education. The inclusion of Yi Syllable Sop in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this minority language, allowing for its use in modern computing and text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A31A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Sop |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꌚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꌚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8C 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA31A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A31A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua31a |