U+A3AD "ꎭ" Yi Syllable Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꎭ
U+A3AD "ꎭ" Yi Syllable Sha is part of the Yi Syllables block, used for writing the Nuosu (or Yi) language spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character represents a specific syllable in the standard Yi script, which was developed from a traditional logographic system into a standardized syllabary in the 1970s. The syllable "Sha" corresponds to a distinct phonetic sound in Nuosu, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation for writing, preserving the language's written heritage in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A3AD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Sha |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꎭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꎭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8E 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA3AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A3AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua3ad |