U+A489 "ꒉ" Yi Syllable Yy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꒉ
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 |