Yi syllable Kix

ꇹ is one syllable in the standardized Liangshan Yi script.

Yi Pinyin is a Latin-letter spelling system: it writes ꇹ as kix. The final x marks secondary-high tone, a pitch pattern, rather than an x consonant.

Traditional Yi writing, historically called Cuan or Wei, varied among communities and appears independent of Chinese Han characters. Village bimo (Yi priests) passed down religious, ritual, magical, medical, family-lineage and historical texts. The earliest securely dated surviving inscription is on a bronze bell from 1485. The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980; it is used in education, newspapers, literature, signs and subtitles.