U+A4E7 "ꓧ" Lisu Letter Xa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4E7 "ꓧ" Lisu Letter Xa is a character from the Lisu script, also known as the Fraser alphabet, which was created in the early 20th century by missionary James O. Fraser and others to write the Lisu language spoken by the Lisu people primarily in southwestern China, Myanmar, and Thailand. This specific letter represents the voiceless velar fricative sound, similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch," and forms part of a syllabic writing system that uses uppercase letters for consonants and lowercase letters for vowels, making it distinct from other Brahmi-derived scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4E7
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter Xa
Block Lisu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓧ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓧ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4E7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4E7
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4e7

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