U+A4FA "ꓺ" Lisu Letter Tone Mya Cya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4FA "ꓺ" Lisu Letter Tone Mya Cya is a tone marker used in the Lisu script, which was developed for writing the Lisu language spoken by the Lisu people in parts of China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This specific character represents a particular tone, known as the "Mya Cya" tone, which helps distinguish meaning in the tonal Lisu language by indicating a specific pitch contour or tonal quality. As part of the Lisu block in Unicode, it is used primarily in modern orthographies to ensure accurate transcription and communication among Lisu speakers.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4FA
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter Tone Mya Cya
Block Lisu
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓺ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓺ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4FA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4FA
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4fa

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