What ꉰ means
It marks the Liangshan Yi syllable romanized as hie. The Latin-letter spelling gives its reading, not a word translation.
Traditional Yi script, historically called Cuan or Wei, carried religious, medical, and family-history texts passed down by bi-mox (Yi priests). The earliest dated surviving Yi inscription is on a bronze bell from 1485; that dates the evidence, not the script’s origin.
The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980 to widen literacy. It adapted older Yi writing into a syllabary, uses some Han-character conventions without descending from Han characters, and covers only Liangshan Yi.
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Who writes ꉰ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꉰ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Yi Syllables block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ꉰ
- Search it as
- hie · Nuosu · Yi script · Cuan · Wei
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.