What ꒹ means
It marks a stroke group for dictionary lookup. The Liangshan Yi radicals were modeled on Chinese dictionary indexes, but carry no intrinsic meaning. Their labels follow the Yi syllables they resemble; ꒹ is a subsidiary form grouped under .
Historically called Cuan or Wei, older Yi writing varied by region and served religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. One tradition credits Aki with devising that older script during the Tang dynasty (618–907); its oldest surviving inscription dates to 1485. The Liangshan Yi writing system containing ꒹ was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980.
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
- Yi dictionary radical · Liangshan Yi · Yi script lookup
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.