What ꂱ means
It writes Nuosu Yi mi with low-falling tone; context gives meaning. Nuosu tradition credits Aki with creating the Yi script during the Tang dynasty. The earliest surviving example is an inscription on a bronze bell dated 1485. Bimo—Yi ritual specialists—used local forms in religious, magical, medical, and genealogical manuscripts.
The standardized Liangshan form was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980 for the Nuosu language; it does not cover every Yi language. The Yi script is independent of Chinese characters and distinct from neighboring Tibetan, Burmese, and Tai scripts. Standardization fixed forms that had varied across local manuscript traditions.
It signals a specific Yi-language context; outside one, readers may not know how to read it.
Do not use it as generic Asian decoration; it is a written Nuosu Yi syllable.
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Who writes ꂱ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsThe syllable is readable, but this message alone may not show its intended word meaning.
Questions people ask
1Why does ꂱ appear as a box?
It can. A font without Yi coverage cannot draw this character; use a Yi-capable font. The text still contains ꂱ.
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How to type or find ꂱ
- Also called
- mip
- Search it as
- Nuosu · Nuosu script · Yi script · Yi keyboard · Yi input method · Yi font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꂱ\A0B1Codes and encoding1 code points
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