U+A340 "ꍀ" Yi Syllable Ssyt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꍀ
U+A340 "ꍀ" Yi Syllable Ssyt is a specific glyph from the Yi script, which is used primarily for writing the Yi languages spoken in southwestern China. This character represents a distinct syllable in the Liangshan Standard Yi dialect, where "ssyt" denotes a particular phonetic sound, typically a sibilant consonant followed by a vowel tone. The Yi script is a syllabary standardized in the 1970s, and each character like "ꍀ" corresponds to a single syllable with a specific tonal value, making it an essential component for accurately transcribing and preserving the Yi language in modern digital and textual contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A340 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ssyt |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꍀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꍀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8D 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA340 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A340 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua340 |