What ꏞ means
It marks one syllable; context supplies its meaning.
“ryrx” is the romanized label; final x marks the secondary-high tone, a pitch pattern in speech.
Some accounts date Yi artifacts to the Western Han era; the clear surviving benchmark is a bronze bell dated 1485, with paper texts around 1500. Traditional Yi writing served religious, magical, medical, and genealogical purposes. Liangshan standardization began in 1974; its form was promulgated in 1980 for literacy. Yi writing is not directly derived from Han Chinese characters.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsInside Yi text
One syllable; nearby text supplies its meaning.
Alone in a message
No reliable message meaning without context.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ꏞ appear as a box?
A box usually means the current font lacks this Yi glyph; choose a font with Yi coverage.
How to type ꏞ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A3DE, then Alt+X to get ꏞ.
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 ryrx”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a3de, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꏞCSS
\A3DEWindows Yi IME
To type a Yi syllable on Windows, enter its phonetic form, then choose the glyph from the Yi IME suggestions (workflow documented 2024-06-20).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꏞ
HTML hex
ꏞ
CSS content
content: "\A3DE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%8F%9E
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.