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ꎮ

yi syllable shap

Yi Syllable Shap

ꎮ writes a Liangshan Yi syllable, roughly “shah” with low-falling pitch; Yi Pinyin spells it “shap,” with final p marking tone, not a consonant. It is writing, not an emoji. The earliest surviving Yi-script example is a bronze-bell inscription dated 1485.

Text symbol
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shap · Nuosu · yi script · yi pinyin
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ꎮ means

It writes one Liangshan Yi syllable. Yi Pinyin is the Latin-letter system for Nuosu; final p in “shap” marks tone, not a consonant. The surrounding word supplies meaning.

A Yi tradition credits Aki with devising the script during China’s Tang dynasty (618–907). Older forms varied by region; village bimo (ritual specialists) used manuscripts for funerals, healing, divination, genealogy, and ceremonies.

The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980. It writes Liangshan Yi, not every Yi language; fonts may change a sign’s outline without changing the character.

Don't confuse it with

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ꋦ
Yi Syllable Zzur
shares “syllable”, “yi”
ꋧ
Yi Syllable Zzyt
shares “syllable”, “yi”
ꋨ
Yi Syllable Zzyx
shares “syllable”, “yi”
ꋩ
Yi Syllable Zzy
shares “syllable”, “yi”

Questions people ask

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Why does ꎮ 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 ꎮ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A3AE, then Alt+X to get ꎮ.
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 shap”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a3ae, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꎮ
CSS
\A3AE
Yi Pinyin input method
Enter shap and choose ꎮ from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꎮ
HTML hex
ꎮ
CSS content
content: "\A3AE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%8E%AE
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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.

Families this belongs to

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