U+A344 "ꍄ" Yi Syllable Ssyrx Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꍄ
U+A344 "ꍄ" Yi Syllable Ssyrx is a specific glyph from the Yi script, which is used primarily to write the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people in Sichuan, China. This character represents a syllable in the Nuosu language, pronounced as "ssyrx," and it belongs to the Unicode block dedicated to Yi syllables, which encodes the phonemic inventory of the standard Liangshan dialect. The Yi script is a syllabary, meaning each character corresponds to a syllable rather than a single sound, and "ꍄ" is one of many such characters created in the 1970s for a standardized written form of Nuosu, later incorporated into Unicode to support digital text and cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A344 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ssyrx |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꍄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꍄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8D 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA344 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A344 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua344 |