U+A4DC "ꓜ" Lisu Letter Dza Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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