Yi Radical Nyop

꒧ is a Yi dictionary radical, a filing key for syllable entries in the standardized Liangshan Yi script, not a spoken word. Older Yi writing varied by region; the earliest surviving dated Yi inscription is on a bronze bell from 1485. The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980.

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What ꒧ means

A filing key for Yi syllable entries, not a spoken word.

A radical is a dictionary filing key. Liangshan Yi dictionaries group syllable entries under ꒧, then sort them by stroke count, following the Chinese-character indexing model.

Older Yi writing varied by region. Priests passed down religious, medical, magical and family-history texts; ꒧ belongs to the Liangshan standard.

Sent alone, ꒧ reads as dictionary index notation, not as a spoken word.

Questions people ask

Why 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.