What ꍾ means
Enter rruox in a Yi/Nuosu input method. The keyboard matches this roman-letter Yi Pinyin spelling to syllable candidates. The final x marks tone in Yi Pinyin.
Choose ꍾ from the candidate list, then press Space or Enter to accept it.
What does ꍾ mean?
It represents one syllable in written Nuosu. Nuosu is the standardized Liangshan Yi variety.
Yi writing has distinct regional forms, with different sets of signs, shapes and writing directions. The earliest surviving dated Yi-script monument is from 1485. Bimo, Yi ritual specialists, used older forms for ritual, magical, medical and genealogical texts. The modern Liangshan standard grew from Northern Yi traditions; it was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980. It supports modern Nuosu literacy but does not encompass every regional Yi tradition.
Within Nuosu text, ꍾ functions as a written syllable; outside that context, readers may not know its language or reading.
Is ꍾ an emoji? No—it is a Yi text character used in Nuosu writing, not a reaction.
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Who writes ꍾ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꍾ 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 ꍾ
- Also called
- rruox
- Search it as
- Nuosu · Yi Pinyin · Yi keyboard · Yi syllable
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꍾ\A37Erruox, choose ꍾ from the candidates, then press Space or Enter to accept it.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.