U+A423 "ꐣ" Yi Syllable Jjot Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A423 "ꐣ" Yi Syllable Jjot is a specific glyph from the Yi script used in the modern standard written form of the Nuosu or Liangshan Yi language, spoken primarily in southwestern China. This character represents a syllable pronounced roughly as "tɕő" in the high rising tone, and it is part of the Yi syllable block in Unicode which was encoded to support the standardized Yi syllabary created in the 1970s. The character "ꐣ" is one of over a thousand such syllables that form the core of this writing system, which is essential for preserving and communicating the Nuosu language in written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+A423
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Jjot
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꐣ
HTML Hex Encoding ꐣ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x90 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA423
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A423
C/C++/Java Escape \ua423

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Yi
Script Extensions Yi
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter