What ꒽ means
It groups Yi syllable signs for dictionary lookup.
The lookup system is modeled on Han radicals, stroke parts used to organize Chinese characters in dictionaries; ꒽ itself belongs to Yi writing.
Older Yi writing varied in glyphs and writing direction. Its earliest surviving inscription is on a bronze bell dated 1485. Village priests called bimo passed down religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. Without Yi font coverage, ꒽ may appear as a missing-glyph box.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꒽ 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 ꒽
- Search it as
- cuop · Yi dictionary · Liangshan Yi · Nuosu
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
꒽CSS
\A4BDUnicode hex input
Enter A4BD in your system's Unicode hex-entry method, then confirm; the shortcut varies by app.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꒽
HTML hex
꒽
CSS content
content: "\A4BD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%92%BD
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.