U+A358 "ꍘ" Yi Syllable Zhup Unicode Character

U+A358 "ꍘ" Yi Syllable Zhup is a character from the Yi script, which is used primarily for writing the Nuosu language, a member of the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken in southwestern China. This specific syllable, pronounced like "zhup" in the standard Liangshan Yi dialect, represents a distinct combination of a consonant and a vowel and is part of the unified syllabic writing system that was standardized in the 1970s to replace the traditional, logographic Yi script. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded in the Yi Syllables block, which contains 1,165 characters that cover the modern standardized syllabary developed for education, publishing, and daily communication among the Yi people.