What ꓬ means
It is the Lisu letter ya, separate from Latin Y.
At a syllable’s start, it can follow another consonant without joining it.
Why does ꓬ resemble Latin Y?
Lisu adapted Latin forms into its own script.
Ba Thaw developed it between 1908 and 1914; Fraser and Lisu pastors revised it for Christian books, including Mark’s Gospel.
Fraser writing serves Lisu Christians; non-Christian Lisu in China especially use Pinyin-based writing. Pinyin writes Chinese with Latin letters. Burmese writing influenced Lisu tone marks for syllable pitch. As of 2026, Lisu writing in China serves education, publishing, media and religion.
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Who writes ꓬ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꓬ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ꓬ
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- ꓬ · Lisu alphabet · Fraser · Pinyin Lisu · Lisu font · Lisu keyboard · Latin Y
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꓬ\A4ECCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.