What 𑾰 means
It is a letter used in spelling, not a standalone sign.
𑾰 belongs to the Fraser (Old Lisu) writing system. Fraser spelling gives vowels their own letters and places tone letters after the syllable; this letter gets its role from the word around it, not from a picture-like idea.
The character appears as an experimental letter in Naxi catechisms, hymnbooks, and a Gospel of Mark. That is a particular Naxi use within a writing system developed for Lisu. The wider Fraser writing system grew from Ba Thaw's work and later revisions by James Fraser and Lisu pastors; it came to be used in Lisu education, publishing, media, and religious writing.
Is 𑾰 an upside-down Y?
No. The resemblance is visual; 𑾰 is a distinct letter.
Unicode's names list identifies , TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL Y, as a visual reference, and names ꓬ, LISU LETTER YA, as its alphabetic neighbor. is a lookalike; ꓬ is another Lisu letter. Neither can replace this spelling.
Orthographic and specialist; in a message, it needs a word or source around it to be read as text.
Keep it distinct from and ꓬ when preserving a Naxi spelling.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𑾰 show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 13.0 (2020), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𑾰
- Search it as
- yha · naxi yha · lisu yha · fraser script · old lisu · turned y · unicode input · U+11FB0
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𑾰\11FB0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.