U+A34E "ꍎ" Yi Syllable Zhox Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A34E "ꍎ" Yi Syllable Zhox is a symbol from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable in the Liangshan Standard Yi language, one of the official languages of the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This character, pronounced roughly as "zho" with an open or low tone depending on dialect, forms part of the modern Yi writing system standardized in the 1970s and included in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation of the language. Its usage is primarily in written Yi texts, where it helps convey lexical and grammatical meaning within the syllabary-based orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+A34E
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Zhox
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꍎ
HTML Hex Encoding ꍎ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x8D 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA34E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A34E
C/C++/Java Escape \ua34e

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