U+A33D "ꌽ" Yi Syllable Ssux Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A33D "ꌽ" Yi Syllable Ssux is part of the Yi script, a syllabary used for writing the Nuosu (or Yi) language, primarily spoken in southwestern China, especially in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. This specific character represents a syllable in the Yi language with the pronunciation "ssux," which is written in the standard Yi romanization system used for the Liangshan dialect. The character belongs to the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, which was added in version 3.0 to support the standardized Yi script as defined by the Chinese government. In practical use, this syllable functions as a basic phonetic unit in the Yi writing system, contributing to the representation of words and concepts in one of China's officially recognized minority languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+A33D
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Ssux
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꌽ
HTML Hex Encoding ꌽ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x8C 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA33D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A33D
C/C++/Java Escape \ua33d

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