U+A428 "ꐨ" Yi Syllable Jjux Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A428 "ꐨ" Yi Syllable Jjux is a specific glyph from the Yi script, used primarily in the Nuosu language spoken in the Liangshan region of southwestern China. This character represents a single syllable in the modern standardized Yi syllabary, pronounced roughly as "ɗʑu˨" (with a low falling tone, indicated by the "x" in the romanization "jjux"). It is one of thousands of Yi syllables encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and enable digital communication for this minority language, ensuring its representation in modern computing systems alongside more widely used scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+A428
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Jjux
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꐨ
HTML Hex Encoding ꐨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x90 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA428
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A428
C/C++/Java Escape \ua428

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