U+A4EF "ꓯ" Lisu Letter Ae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4EF "ꓯ" Lisu Letter Ae is a component of the Lisu script, also known as the Fraser alphabet, which was developed in the early 20th century by missionary James O. Fraser for writing the Lisu language spoken by the Lisu people primarily in southwestern China, Myanmar, and Thailand. This character represents the sound of a long mid-central vowel, similar to the "a" in "father" or the "e" in "her" in some English dialects, and it is used to distinguish lexical and tonal meanings in the tonal Lisu language. While its glyph resembles the Latin capital letter "A" turned upside down, it is not directly related to the Latin alphabet, and it occupies a specific place in the Lisu syllabic writing system, which employs uppercase and lowercase letterforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4EF
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter Ae
Block Lisu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓯ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4EF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4EF
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4ef

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