What ꆁ means
It writes Nuosu's niex syllable; alone, it has no fixed translation.
Yi Pinyin is the Latin-letter system for spelling Nuosu syllables; the final x in niex marks tone. Surrounding syllables complete the word.
When does Yi writing first appear?
The earliest surviving example is a bronze bell from 1485.
Claims of Western Han-period writing are disputed.
Regional Yi forms were used in religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. The Liangshan writing standard drew on older Northern Yi forms; devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980, it improved literacy but does not cover every Yi language.
A language-specific syllable used within Yi writing.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ꆁ 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 ꆁ
ꆁ\A181Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.