U+A4F8 "ꓸ" Lisu Letter Tone Mya Ti Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓸ
U+A4F8 "ꓸ" Lisu Letter Tone Mya Ti is one of the eight dedicated tone markers used in the Lisu script, a writing system developed for the Lisu language spoken primarily in Yunnan, China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This specific character, called Mya Ti, represents a high rising or high level tonal contour in the language, which relies heavily on tone to distinguish meaning, much like other Tibeto-Burman languages. As part of the Lisu block of Unicode, it appears in written texts alongside consonant and vowel letters to indicate the correct pronunciation and semantic differentiation of words, enabling accurate communication in both religious and everyday contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A4F8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Lisu Letter Tone Mya Ti |
| Block | Lisu |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꓸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꓸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x93 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA4F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A4F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua4f8 |