U+A452 "ꑒ" Yi Syllable Nyuox Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꑒ
U+A452 "ꑒ" Yi Syllable Nyuox is a specific glyph from the Yi script, a syllabary historically used to write the Yi languages, primarily in southwestern China. This particular character represents a syllable pronounced as "nyuox," which corresponds to a lexical tone in the Nuosu variety of Yi, where the suffix "-x" indicates a specific tonal contour. The Yi script is encoded in the Unicode standard within the "Yi Syllables" block, reflecting efforts to digitally preserve and support the linguistic heritage of the Yi people, who number over nine million in China. Thus, U+A452 serves as a digital representation of a distinct phonetic and tonal unit essential for accurate written communication in the Yi language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A452 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Nyuox |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꑒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꑒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x91 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA452 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A452 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua452 |