What ꏩ means
It represents one spoken syllable. In juox, final x marks the secondary-high tone; ꏪ is juo at midlevel tone, so their pitch differs.
Local Yi scripts varied; bimo (Yi ritual specialists) passed family manuscripts down for religious, medical, and genealogical use. Traditional Yi signs form a writing tradition distinct from Chinese characters. The oldest surviving Yi inscription is on a bronze bell dated 1485; that date belongs to the inscription, not ꏩ. Devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980, the Liangshan standard adapted Yi writing to improve literacy. It writes Nuosu, one Yi variety.
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Who writes ꏩ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꏩ 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 ꏩ
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- juox · nuosu · liangshan · yi script · 彝文 · 彝语
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꏩ\A3E9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.