What ꌍ means
It marks one Liangshan Yi syllable; context supplies its translation. “Siex” is the standard Latin-letter label; its final x marks the secondary-high tone, a pitch distinction in Yi.
A Nuosu origin tradition credits Aki, a hero in its creation stories, with devising the script during the Tang dynasty (618–907). The earliest surviving dated example is a Yi inscription on a bronze bell from 1485—evidence the script existed by then, not its origin date.
Local Yi scripts varied in glyph sets, shapes, and writing direction; village ritual specialists kept religious, divination, medical, and family-lineage manuscripts. To improve literacy, the Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980. It appears in official documents, newspapers, literature, and bilingual editions of ritual and epic texts.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꌍ look different or disappear?
It is usually a font issue. A font without the Yi glyph can show a missing-character box; another supporting font can draw a different outline. The text character remains ꌍ.
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How to type or find ꌍ
- Also called
- siex
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- Yi script · Nuosu script · Liangshan Yi · Yi input method · 彝文
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꌍ\A30Dsiex on Latin keys, then select ꌍ from the candidates. Microsoft's instructions were last updated 2024-06-20.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.