U+A37B "ꍻ" Yi Syllable Chyr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꍻ
U+A37B "ꍻ" Yi Syllable Chyr is a specific syllable from the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character represents a particular phonetic sound in the Nuosu or standard Liangshan Yi dialect, where the syllable "chyr" corresponds to a voiced retroflex affricate produced with a certain tone. It is part of the historical and cultural effort to encode the Yi script into Unicode, ensuring that this unique writing system, traditionally used for ceremonial and everyday communication by the Yi people, can be accurately represented and preserved in digital formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A37B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Chyr |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꍻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꍻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8D 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA37B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A37B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua37b |