What ꄹ means
It is a Yi syllable for “say/is called,” not Chinese writing.
Liangshan Yi romanization writes “say/is called” as ddip; final p marks low-falling tone in questions. Traditional Yi scripts varied locally; village priests copied religious, magical, medical and family-history texts. One Tang-era story credits Aki with its creation. The 1485 bronze-bell inscription is the earliest clearly dated example; some scholars identify older Yi writing. The Liangshan Nuosu standard, devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980, aimed to improve literacy.
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Who writes ꄹ
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Questions people ask
1Can a missing font make ꄹ show as a box?
Yes. Use a Yi-capable font, such as Nuosu SIL.
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How to type or find ꄹ
- Also called
- ddip
- Search it as
- Nuosu · Yi script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ꄹCSS
\A139Windows Yi IME
How to type ꄹ on Windows: add Yi per Microsoft’s 2024-06-20 guide, press WindowsSpace, enter ddip, then select a suggestion.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꄹ
HTML hex
ꄹ
CSS content
content: "\A139";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%84%B9
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.