ꂥ Yi Syllable Hmu

What ꂥ means

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In the standard Liangshan Yi romanization, this syllable is written hmu. The missing tone letter means midlevel tone; hmu is a reading label, not an English translation.

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What does ꂥ mean?

It writes one Liangshan Yi syllable; its word meaning needs context.

The Unicode Yi syllabary writes the Liangshan variety of Yi, spoken by Nuosu communities. Each sign represents an allowed syllable; the word’s translation comes from the surrounding Yi text. The character alone does not tell a reader which word or sentence it belongs to.

Older Yi writing had local ideographic traditions, historically called Cuan or Wei. Yi signs appear not to derive from Han ideographs. Village priests used these scripts for religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. One tradition credits Aki with devising the script during the Tang dynasty (618–907), though the attribution is uncertain; a surviving bronze-bell inscription is dated 1485. To improve literacy, a standardized Liangshan syllabary based on traditional Yi script was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980. It represents Liangshan Yi syllables, not every Yi variety.

Neutral in Yi writing; the syllable’s word meaning comes from its surrounding text.

Alone, it will not reliably signal a mood to someone who does not read Yi.