U+A3F8 "ꏸ" Yi Syllable Jy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꏸ
U+A3F8 "ꏸ" Yi Syllable Jy is a specific glyph within the Yi script, a syllabary historically used for writing the Yi languages spoken by the Yi people of southwestern China. This particular character represents the syllable pronounced "jy," and it belongs to the standard modern Yi syllabary, which was standardized in the 1970s and consists of 1,164 distinct syllables. The Yi script itself can be traced back to a pictographic and logographic system, but the modern standard is purely a syllabary, with each character corresponding to a single syllable in the Yi language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A3F8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Jy |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꏸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꏸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x8F 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA3F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A3F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua3f8 |