What ꌮ means
ꌮ is a syllable sign in the Liangshan standard. The spelling ssiex is romanization: its final x marks the secondary-high tone (the syllable’s pitch pattern), not a consonant.
Bimo priests (religious specialists) copied local Yi forms for ritual, medical, and genealogical texts. Early evidence is debated: some scholars point to Western Han-era objects; a Guizhou bronze bell dated 1485 is commonly cited as the oldest securely dated surviving Yi-script monument. Based on traditional Liangshan Yi writing, the modern standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980 to improve literacy; it was designed for Liangshan Yi, not every Yi variety.
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Who writes ꌮ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꌮ 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.
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How to type or find ꌮ
- Also called
- ssiex
- Search it as
- Nuosu · Liangshan Yi · Yi script · A32E
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.