U+A4F8 "ꓸ" Lisu Letter Tone Mya Ti Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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
Case Ignorable Yes
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