What ꑚ means
It marks one syllable within a Yi word.
Bimo, Yi ritual specialists, used older Yi writing for religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. An early surviving Yi inscription is on a bronze bell dated 1485.
Devised in 1974 and formally issued in 1980 for literacy and publishing, the Liangshan standard draws on older northern Yi forms. Regional Yi writing traditions are not interchangeable. Han writing influenced the region, but this syllable is not derived from a Han character.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIn Liangshan Yi text
The syllable nyux within a written word.
Sent alone, with no Yi context
Yi writing; its intended meaning needs someone who knows the language.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ꑚ 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 ꑚ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A45A, then Alt+X to get ꑚ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “yi syllable nyux”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a45a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꑚCSS
\A45AYi input method
How to type ꑚ with a Yi input method: enter the Latin input spelling nyux, select ꑚ from the candidates, then press Space or Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꑚ
HTML hex
ꑚ
CSS content
content: "\A45A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%91%9A
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.