U+A489 "ꒉ" Yi Syllable Yy Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A489 "ꒉ" Yi Syllable Yy is part of the Yi Syllables block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to encode the modern literary language of the Yi people, primarily spoken in southwestern China. This specific character represents a syllable in the Yi script, with the romanization "Yy" indicating its pronunciation. Within the standardized Yi writing system, each syllable character corresponds to a distinct spoken syllable, and this particular glyph is used to write words that include the sound represented by "Yy" in the Nuosu dialect, one of the most widely spoken Yi languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+A489
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Syllable Yy
Block Yi Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꒉ
HTML Hex Encoding ꒉ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x92 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA489
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A489
C/C++/Java Escape \ua489

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