U+A3AE "ꎮ" Yi Syllable Shap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꎮ
U+A3AE "ꎮ" Yi Syllable Shap is part of the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China. This particular character represents a specific syllable in the standardized Yi syllabary, where each character corresponds to a distinct syllable sound rather than an individual letter or ideogram. The syllable "shap" is one of many that make up the phonological inventory of the Yi language, and its inclusion in Unicode enables digital text processing, storage, and display for speakers and scholars working with this linguistic system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A3AE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Shap |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꎮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꎮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8E 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA3AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A3AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua3ae |