U+A4DC "ꓜ" Lisu Letter Dza Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓜ
U+A4DC "ꓜ" Lisu Letter Dza is a specific glyph within the Lisu script, an alphabet used primarily to write the Lisu language spoken by the Lisu people in China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This character represents the voiced affricate sound /dza/, similar to the "ds" sound in the English word "adze." It is part of the unified Lisu block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.2 in 2009 to support digital text representation and preservation of this linguistically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A4DC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Lisu Letter Dza |
| Block | Lisu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꓜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꓜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x93 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA4DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A4DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua4dc |