U+A4F0 "ꓰ" Lisu Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓰ
U+A4F0 "ꓰ" Lisu Letter E is a phonetic symbol used in the Lisu language, which belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family and is spoken primarily in southwestern China, northern Myanmar, and parts of Thailand and India. This character represents a specific vowel sound in the Lisu syllabary, which was historically written with a variant of the Fraser alphabet before being standardized in Unicode. The letter "E" as depicted by this glyph corresponds to a mid front unrounded vowel, similar to the "e" sound in the English word "bed." Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the Lisu language can be digitally preserved and accurately rendered in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A4F0 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Lisu Letter E |
| Block | Lisu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꓰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꓰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x93 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA4F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A4F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua4f0 |