U+A453 "ꑓ" Yi Syllable Nyuo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꑓ
U+A453 "ꑓ" Yi Syllable Nyuo is part of the Yi Syllables block, which encodes the script used for the Nuosu language spoken by the Yi people in southwestern China. This specific character represents the syllable "nyuo" in the standardized Yi writing system, which is a syllabary reformed from traditional logographic scripts under Chinese government initiatives in the 1970s. Within the Nuosu language, "nyuo" can function as a morpheme in various words, often relating to meanings such as "cow" or "ox," reflecting the cultural importance of livestock in traditional Yi society. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures that digital communication and preservation of the Yi script is possible across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A453 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Nyuo |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꑓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꑓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x91 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA453 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A453 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua453 |