Yi syllable bbuo

It is a syllable, not a complete word.

In Yi Pinyin, bbuo is the Latin-letter label for this syllable; context supplies its word meaning. This is Yi script, not Chinese writing. A box means the font lacks the glyph.

Yi writing grew through regional forms, including older signs for ideas. Among the earliest securely dated Yi examples are 15th-century bell inscriptions; undated manuscripts may predate them. Bimo, Yi ritual specialists, transmitted religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. The Liangshan standard, developed in 1974 and promulgated in 1980, reorganized selected forms into a syllabary (a system of one sign per syllable) to widen literacy.