Yi syllable Dduop

It writes one Liangshan Yi syllable, not one universal English meaning.

The dduop pronunciation is roughly d followed by an open o, said with a low-falling tone; it is represented as [dɔ²¹]. In Yi Pinyin, the final p marks that tone. dduop labels the syllable's sound, not an English word; read the surrounding Yi text for the word-level meaning.

Is this the old Yi script?

It belongs to a modern standard; Yi writing has regional forms. The history of Yi writing spans local traditions rather than one uniform script. Village priests used local forms mainly for religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts, passing manuscripts within their communities. The earliest surviving Yi writing with a secure date discussed here is a bronze-bell inscription from around 1485; proposed earlier stone and bronze ancestors from Guizhou remain uncertain.

The Liangshan standardization selected traditional forms for a phonetic syllabary—a writing system in which signs represent syllables—based on one dialect, with literacy as its goal. It was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980. Regional Yi scripts can differ in shape and sound. Components used to index Yi characters in dictionaries are not alternate meanings of ꅃ.

How do I type ꅃ?

Enter its Yi Pinyin spelling, then select the syllable.

On Windows, select Yi input, type dduop using Latin-letter keys, and accept the matching suggestion. On the SIL Yi desktop keyboard, enter the spelling and press Space. In the SIL Yi mobile layout, version 2.0, choose the ddu consonant key and then the uop vowel-and-tone key.