What ꀞ means
Choose bat on a Nuosu/Yi keyboard or converter. In this romanization, final -t marks high tone; typing the Latin letters on an ordinary keyboard will not automatically produce ꀞ.
What does ꀞ mean?
It represents a syllable in Yi writing. bat is a romanized label for the syllable, not an English translation; its meaning depends on the Yi word and sentence around it.
How old is the Yi writing behind ꀞ?
The earliest secure dated example commonly cited is from 1485. Claims point to objects dated to the Western Han period (206 BC to AD 9), but the earliest secure dated surviving example commonly cited is an inscription on a bronze bell from 1485. Traditional Yi forms were used by local ritual specialists in religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts.
The Liangshan Yi standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980 to improve literacy. It represents Liangshan Yi, not every Yi variety or older local tradition. Traditional Yi writing is treated as a distinct script tradition, not a branch of Chinese characters or neighboring Tibetan, Burmese, and Tai scripts.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
2Is ꀞ an emoji?
No. As of 2026, ꀞ is a font-drawn text character, not emoji artwork.
Why does ꀞ appear as a box?
Your font may lack a Yi glyph for it, so it shows a fallback box. That display does not change the character itself.
How to type ꀞ
ꀞ\A01ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.