U+A3CA "ꏊ" Yi Syllable Ruox Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꏊ
U+A3CA "ꏊ" Yi Syllable Ruox is part of the Yi script, which is used to write the Yi languages spoken primarily in southwestern China. This specific character represents a syllable pronounced as "ruox" in the standardized Modern Yi syllabary, which was developed in the 1970s based on the Liangshan dialect. The Yi script is a unique purely syllabic writing system, distinct from the logographic Chinese characters, and U+A3CA is one of over a thousand such syllables encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital text and communication for the Yi language community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A3CA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Ruox |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꏊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꏊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8F 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA3CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A3CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua3ca |