Yi Syllable Lot

ꇇ means “hand” in Nuosu Yi.

The Liangshan spelling is lot, roughly “lo” held high and level; linguistic notation writes lo55, and final t marks the tone, not a consonant.

Traditional Yi writing (Cuan or Wei) varied by region; village priests used it for religious, magical, medical, and genealogical writing. Its signs imitated Chinese writing but do not appear to derive from Han characters. One tradition credits the script to Aki in the Tang dynasty (618–907); the earliest surviving dated monument is a bronze-bell inscription from 1485. The Liangshan standard drew on older Yi signs; it was devised in 1974, tested from 1975, and promulgated in 1980.