Yi Syllable Lox

It writes the Liangshan Yi syllable labeled lox.

Here lox is a Latin-letter transcription used for Liangshan Yi; its final x marks the secondary high tone, not an English gloss.

The character supplies one syllable, not a standalone translation. Read it in the Yi word around it.

Where did Yi writing come from?

It grew through several local Yi writing traditions.

One tradition credits a figure called Aki (also written A Ke) with devising the traditional script during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Unicode cites the earliest surviving example as a bronze-bell inscription dated 1485.

Traditional Yi writing varied by region and was passed down in texts used for religious, magical, medical, and family-lineage purposes. Village priests preserved these manuscripts.

How do I type ꇈ?

A Yi input method turns phonetic spelling into character choices.

With a Yi input method, enter the syllable’s Latin-letter spelling and choose its character.

Is Yi writing related to Han characters? Unicode describes traditional Yi ideographs as apparently not derived from Han ideographs; the standardized Liangshan syllabary developed from those older Yi forms. It was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980 to improve literacy.