U+A440 "ꑀ" Yi Syllable Nju Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꑀ
U+A440 "ꑀ" Yi Syllable Nju is a glyph from the Yi script, specifically used to represent the syllable "nju" in the modern standardized written form of the Yi language, also known as Nuosu, which is spoken by the Yi people primarily in southwestern China. This character is part of the Yi Syllables block in Unicode, encompassing a wide range of syllabic signs that were standardized in the 1980s to facilitate literacy and digital communication in the language. As a syllabary, each character corresponds to a distinct syllable, and "nju" is one of many that contribute to the phonetic representation of Yi, linking cultural heritage with modern text encoding standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A440 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Nju |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꑀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꑀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x91 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA440 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A440 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua440 |