What ꁅ means
It is Liangshan Yi puop, also used as a hand classifier. A classifier accompanies a counting word to show what is counted; here, it groups hands. A Nuosu wordlist from 2022 records this use.
Older Yi writing had local forms, not one shared script. Bi-mox—Yi religious specialists—used it in ritual, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. Some older signs represented ideas or words; modern Liangshan writing represents syllables. Its standard was designed in 1974 and formally issued in 1980 for Nuosu, one Yi variety; it does not cover all Yi languages.
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Who writes ꁅ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꁅ 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.
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How to type or find ꁅ
- Also called
- puop
- Search it as
- yi puop · nuosu puop · phɔ21 · hand classifier · liangshan yi
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꁅ\A045Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.