Yi syllable Pix

ꀹ represents the Liangshan Yi syllable labeled “pix.” Its final x marks the secondary-high tone; it is not pronounced as the English letter x.

As of 2026, a lone ꀹ has no established emoji-style message. In Yi text it contributes one syllable; if someone sends it alone, ask for surrounding text before treating it as a reaction.

How old is the Yi script?

Yi writing has a long traditional history and a dated written record. Yi traditions credit Aki, a culture hero, with creating writing during the Tang period; surviving undated manuscripts may be older. Among the earliest securely dated monumental examples is a bronze bell inscription with both Yi and Chinese text from 1485.

Traditional Yi writing appears in religious, magical, medical, and genealogical works copied and interpreted by village priests, and forms varied locally. To support literacy, a Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980. Older Yi writing traditions were largely ideographic and locally variable: some signs stood for words or ideas. Unicode, the standard computers use to encode text, includes a phonetic Liangshan Yi set, with one character for each spoken syllable. Cuan and Wei are historical names for connected Yi script traditions.

Why does ꀹ show as a square?

A square means the selected font lacks this Yi glyph. The character itself is unchanged; it is a font-coverage problem, not a different character.