Yi syllable bbuox

Alone, ꁢ is one Yi syllable, not a complete translation.

“bbuox” is a romanized reading, not an English gloss. A lone syllable cannot reliably identify the Yi word it belongs to; surrounding characters supply the word and sentence.

The earliest surviving dated Yi script evidence is a bronze bell inscription from 1485; undated manuscripts may be older. Yi writing served ritual specialists, who used it for ritual books and formal inscriptions, and it preserves epics, proverbs, genealogies, and origin stories.

How does Classical Yi differ from modern Yi?

Older Yi traditions differ by region; the modern standard organizes one written form.

Classical Yi is a name for older regional traditions; their graphs, sounds, punctuation, and reading practices can differ. The modern Liangshan standard emerged from older Northern Yi forms in the 1970s and entered schools, official documents, newspapers, literature, and editions of ritual texts. A manuscript sign can share this tradition without matching a modern character one-for-one.

Nuosu is a Yi language written in this standard. A qualitative study of digital Nuosu use published in 2024 reported that it centered on literary and artistic expression and learning the script, rather than interpersonal conversation.

How do I type ꁢ?

Use a Yi input method and select the matching character.

On Windows, add Yi in the language and region settings, enter the syllable’s romanized phonemes with Latin-letter keys, then select the matching candidate. Microsoft documented this workflow in 2024.

Fonts with Yi coverage can display ꁢ; different fonts may give it different outlines. If it appears as a box, the selected font may lack Yi coverage even though the text character is present.