U+A40A "ꐊ" Yi Syllable Qo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꐊ
U+A40A "ꐊ" Yi Syllable Qo is a character from the Yi script, specifically the Modern Yi syllabary used to write the Nuosu language, a member of the Lolo-Burmese branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken primarily in Sichuan, China. This syllable represents the sound "qo," with the initial consonant being a voiceless velar affricate, and it is part of a standardized set of 1,164 syllables established in the 1970s to unify and promote literacy for the Nuosu people. The character appears in the Unicode block for Yi Syllables (U+A000 to U+A48F) and aids in documenting one of China’s officially recognized minority languages, preserving its unique writing system based on traditional Yi glyphs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A40A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Qo |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꐊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꐊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x90 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA40A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A40A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua40a |