Yi syllable shyt

ꏀ is Nuosu shyt, a high-tone syllable glossed “put to bed.”

The final -t marks the syllable’s tone, or pitch pattern, in Nuosu romanization; it is not a consonant sound. Each standardized Yi character represents a complete syllable and has no typographic interaction with neighboring characters.

Older local Yi scripts took different forms. One history reports stone and pottery traces from the 8th century BCE; Unicode identifies a 1485 bronze-bell inscription among the earliest surviving examples. The accounts point to different dates, so no single first date is secure as of 2026. Local scripts served priests’ religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. The Liangshan standard for Nuosu writing in Sichuan was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980 to widen literacy; it later supported schools, official writing, newspapers, and literature. It regularized older Yi forms rather than deriving directly from Chinese or neighboring alphabets.

How do I type ꏀ?

Use a romanization-aware Nuosu/Yi input method.

In an input method that accepts Nuosu romanization, enter shyt to produce ꏀ; a plain keyboard leaves the Latin spelling.