Yi syllable fu

It writes one syllable, not an English gloss. In Yi Pinyin, fu is its reading; the Yi word around it supplies the sense.

Some scholars identify inscriptions over a thousand years old as Yi writing; a bronze-bell inscription from 1485 is the oldest securely dated example. Paper texts survive from at least late Ming China. Bimo, Yi ritual specialists, copied local works on religion, magic, medicine, and genealogy. The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980 for literacy and publishing. It is one of four related Yi script traditions, whose forms are not always mutually readable.