What ꎺ means
The name ‘shut’ is a romanization label, not an English translation.
Before modern standardization, regional Yi forms varied. Bimo, Yi ritual specialists, used them for religious, medical, magical, and genealogical texts. The earliest surviving Yi inscription generally cited is on a bronze bell dated 1485; earlier-origin claims remain debated. In the 1970s, the Liangshan/Nuosu standard selected forms from older Yi scripts to support literacy.
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Who writes ꎺ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꎺ look like a box?
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How to type or find ꎺ
- Search it as
- shut · nuosu · liangshan yi · yi script · yi keyboard · yi ime · yi font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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ꎺCSS
\A3BAHow to type ꎺ
In a Yi input method (IME), enter the romanization
shut and select its suggestion.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꎺ
HTML hex
ꎺ
CSS content
content: "\A3BA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%8E%BA
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On screen
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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.