U+A4EE "ꓮ" Lisu Letter A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4EE "ꓮ" Lisu Letter A is the first letter of the Lisu alphabet, used to write the Lisu language spoken primarily in southwestern China, northern Myanmar, and parts of Thailand and India. Representing an open central unrounded vowel sound similar to the "a" in "father," this character forms part of the Fraser script, which was developed in the early 20th century by missionary James O. Fraser. The Lisu Letter A is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Lisu block, ranging from U+A4D0 to U+A4FF, and is visually distinct with its simple, angled strokes, helping to preserve and digitize the written tradition of the Lisu people.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4EE
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter A
Block Lisu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓮ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓮ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4EE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4EE
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4ee

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