U+A4D0 "ꓐ" Lisu Letter Ba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4D0 "ꓐ" Lisu Letter Ba is the first letter of the Lisu alphabet, representing the sound /b/ in the Fraser script used for writing the Lisu language, primarily spoken in southwestern China, northern Myanmar, and parts of Thailand and India. This character is part of the Lisu block in Unicode, which was added to support the standardized orthography developed by missionary James O. Fraser in the early 20th century. The letter forms part of a syllabic writing system where each character inherently carries an unmarked mid tone, with tone marks added as diacritics to indicate other tones.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4D0
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter Ba
Block Lisu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓐ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓐ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4D0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4D0
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4d0

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 Alphabetic
Script Lisu
Script Extensions Lisu
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter