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ꄍ

yi syllable dot

Yi Syllable Dot

ꄍ writes the Nuosu syllable approximated as “to” at high pitch; Yi Pinyin spells it dot, where final t marks tone rather than a consonant. It is a syllable sign, not punctuation.

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What ꄍ means

It writes the high-tone Nuosu syllable do.

Each Liangshan Yi sign writes a spoken syllable. Older Yi writing varied by region and served ritual, medical, magical, genealogical and literary texts. Dated monuments begin in the 15th–16th centuries; paper manuscripts date from around 1500. The standard was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980 to support literacy.

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Yi Script & Syllables

Who writes ꄍ

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Questions people ask

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Why does ꄍ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find ꄍ

Search it as: Nuosu dot · Yi Pinyin dot · Liangshan Yi
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType A10D, then AltX to get ꄍ.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “yi syllable dot”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType a10d, then Enter or Space.

HTML

ꄍ

CSS

\A10D

How to type ꄍ

Microsoft's Windows Yi IME (documented in 2024): type Yi Pinyin dot with English keys, select ꄍ; Enter or Space accepts the first candidate.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

ꄍ

HTML hex

ꄍ

CSS content

content: "\A10D";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%EA%84%8D

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On screen

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Code points

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JS .length

3

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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