U+A4F5 "ꓵ" Lisu Letter Ue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓵ
U+A4F5 "ꓵ" Lisu Letter Ue is used in the Lisu script, an alphabetic writing system created by the missionary James O. Fraser in the early 20th century for the Lisu language spoken primarily in southwestern China, Myanmar, and Thailand. This character represents a specific vowel sound, roughly equivalent to the French "u" or a high, rounded front vowel, and forms part of the unified Fraser alphabet block in Unicode, which supports the transcription of Lisu tonal and phonetic distinctions. Its inclusion in the standard enables digital typography and text processing for the Lisu community, preserving a crucial element of their linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A4F5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Lisu Letter Ue |
| Block | Lisu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꓵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꓵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x93 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA4F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A4F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua4f5 |