U+A3AA "ꎪ" Yi Syllable Nryr Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A3AA "ꎪ" Yi Syllable Nryr is part of the Yi Syllables block, representing a specific phoneme in the standardized Yi script used for the Nuosu language, a member of the Lolo-Burmese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character encodes a syllable pronounced as "nryr," which corresponds to a particular tonal and vocalic combination within the Nuosu phonological system, where the final "yr" indicates a specific vowel sound with a particular tone (typically the third tone in Yi romanization). As a component of the modern Yi writing system standardized in the 1970s and 1980s, this syllabic character is used in written Nuosu literature, education, and official contexts to faithfully represent the spoken language, preserving its unique linguistic structure distinct from Chinese characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+A3AA
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Nryr
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꎪ
HTML Hex Encoding ꎪ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x8E 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA3AA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A3AA
C/C++/Java Escape \ua3aa

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