U+A42A "ꐪ" Yi Syllable Jjup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꐪ
U+A42A "ꐪ" Yi Syllable Jjup is a specific glyph from the Yi script, a system historically used to write the Yi languages of southwestern China. It represents the syllable pronounced as "jjup," where the initial "jj" denotes a voiced palatal affricate sound, and the vowel is nasalized, as is common in Yi phonology. This character is part of the modern standardized Yi syllabary, which was created in the 1970s and is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the "Yi Syllables" block, ensuring its digital representation for linguistic and cultural preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A42A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Jjup |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꐪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꐪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x90 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA42A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A42A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua42a |