U+A4BA "꒺" Yi Radical Shur Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4BA "꒺" Yi Radical Shur is a component of the Yi script, a syllabic writing system historically used for the Yi languages of southwestern China, and it serves as the radical representing the sound "shur," often functioning as a semantic or phonetic building block within more complex Yi characters. This character belongs to the Yi Radicals block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to encode the foundational structural elements of the script, enabling the digital representation and sorting of Yi text by its traditional radical-based dictionary system. Unlike standard letters in the modern Yi syllable alphabet, radicals like "shur" are not typically used as standalone syllables but are instead essential for the calligraphic and lexicographic traditions of the Yi written language.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4BA
Version Added 3.0
Name Yi Radical Shur
Block Yi Radicals
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꒺
HTML Hex Encoding ꒺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x92 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4BA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4BA
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4ba

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
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other