U+A460 "ꑠ" Yi Syllable Xip Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꑠ
U+A460 "ꑠ" Yi Syllable Xip is a specific glyph within the Yi script, which is used to write the Nuosu language spoken primarily in the Liangshan region of southwestern China. This character represents a single syllable, pronounced as "xip," which corresponds to a particular sound in the tonal system of the Nuosu Yi language. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize this indigenous writing system, allowing for accurate text representation and data exchange in modern computing environments. The character is part of the larger Yi Syllables block, which was added to the Unicode standard in version 3.0 to support the extensive syllabary of the Yi script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A460 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Xip |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꑠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꑠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x91 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA460 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A460 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua460 |