What ꈈ means
It is ko, a Nuosu syllable, not a fixed English gloss.
Traditional Yi writing varied by region. Pottery, stone, and bronze inscriptions more than 1,000 years old survive; paper texts survive from at least the late Ming dynasty in China. Yi ritual specialists called bimo copied religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980. By 2024, it was used in education, religion, publishing, signs, and subtitles.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ꈈ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ꈈ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A208, then Alt+X to get ꈈ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “yi syllable ko”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a208, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꈈCSS
\A208Yi Pinyin
Enter `ko` in a Yi Pinyin input method for the unmarked mid-tone syllable; ordinary Latin typing does not convert it to ꈈ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꈈ
HTML hex
ꈈ
CSS content
content: "\A208";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%88%88
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.