U+A44C "ꑌ" Yi Syllable Nyi Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A44C "ꑌ" Yi Syllable Nyi is a glyph from the Yi script, specifically representing a syllable in the modern standard Liangshan Yi language spoken in southwestern China. This character is part of the Yi Syllables block, which includes 1,165 syllables derived from the traditional 1974 standardized syllabary used for writing the Nuosu language. The syllable "nyi" corresponds to the phoneme [ɲi] in the Yi language, where tone is integral to meaning, though U+A44C itself does not inherently encode a specific tone without additional diacritical or contextual marking.

General Properties

Code Point U+A44C
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Nyi
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꑌ
HTML Hex Encoding ꑌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x91 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA44C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A44C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua44c

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