U+A3AC "ꎬ" Yi Syllable Shax Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꎬ
U+A3AC "ꎬ" Yi Syllable Shax is a glyph from the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China, particularly in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces. This specific character represents the syllable "shax" in the standard Yi syllabary, where each character corresponds to a single syllable with a specific tone, in this case associated with the third tone (often marked by the final "x" in the romanization). As part of the Unified Yi Syllabary block (U+A000 to U+A48F), it plays a role in preserving and transmitting the rich linguistic heritage of the Yi people, who have a long history and a distinct writing system that was standardized in the 1970s based on the Liangshan dialect.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A3AC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Shax |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꎬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꎬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8E 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA3AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A3AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua3ac |