U+A42E "ꐮ" Yi Syllable Jjyx Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꐮ
U+A42E "ꐮ" Yi Syllable Jjyx is a character from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable used in the standardized modern Yi language, which is spoken by the Yi people primarily in southwestern China. This character encodes the sound "jjyx," where the final "x" indicates a specific tone, as the Yi script is a syllabary that marks tones with distinct letters rather than diacritics. It falls within the Yi Syllables block of Unicode, which was added to support the written form of the language as used in official contexts and literature, helping to preserve and digitize this linguistic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A42E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Jjyx |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꐮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꐮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x90 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA42E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A42E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua42e |