Yi syllable Mgot

It represents a Yi syllable, not a standalone idea.

In the Liangshan romanization, mgot denotes the syllable written mgo with high tone; the final t marks tone, not an extra consonant. Yi sentence context supplies the word's meaning.

A bronze bell from 1485 is the earliest surviving dated monument cited for Yi writing. Older manuscripts vary in form, and many are undated.

Is ꈹ Chinese or Yi writing?

It belongs to Yi writing, not Chinese character writing. Traditional Yi ideographs are not thought to derive from Han ideographs, so a similar outline alone does not establish a connection.

Older local Yi forms are recorded under names such as Cuan and Wei. Bimo, Yi ritual specialists, used traditional forms mainly for religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts.

The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980 to make writing more consistent and accessible. It later appeared in official documents, newspapers, literature, and reworked ritual texts.