U+A4FA "ꓺ" Lisu Letter Tone Mya Cya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓺ
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 |