U+A47E "ꑾ" Yi Syllable Yox Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꑾ
U+A47E "ꑾ" Yi Syllable Yox is a character from the Yi script, a syllabary used for writing the Yi language, primarily spoken by the Yi ethnic group in southwestern China. This specific character represents a phonetic syllable in the Modern Yi (also known as Liangshan Yi) writing system, where it is pronounced as "yox" and corresponds to a particular tone and vowel combination within the language's rich syllabic structure. The Yi script was standardized in the 1970s, and U+A47E is part of the range of characters that help preserve and digitally represent the Yi language in modern computing environments, including typography and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A47E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Yi Syllable Yox |
| Block | Yi Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꑾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꑾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x91 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA47E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A47E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua47e |