What ꌻ means
The earliest surviving Yi inscription cited is on a bronze bell dated 1485. Village priests used traditional forms for religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts.
Regional forms varied. The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980 from traditional forms for one dialect. ꌻ belongs to that standard, not every Yi writing tradition.
Language-specific written text, not a universal reaction.
Alone, it may be opaque to readers who do not read Yi.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ꌻ show as a box?
A box usually means the active font lacks Yi font support; switch to a font that supports Yi.
How to type ꌻ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A33B, then Alt+X to get ꌻ.
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 ssep”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a33b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꌻCSS
\A33BYi input method
Enter the romanized syllable ssep, then select ꌻ from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꌻ
HTML hex
ꌻ
CSS content
content: "\A33B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%8C%BB
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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.