What ꄠ means
It represents a spoken syllable, not a standalone message.
Yi Pinyin, the standard Latin-letter spelling system for Yi, writes it tiep; final p marks a low falling tone. Older regional Yi forms, called Cuan or Wei, appear in religious, medical, magical, and genealogical texts used by bimo (Yi ritual specialists). A bronze-bell inscription from 1485 is the oldest securely dated surviving example of Yi writing; earlier origins are debated. The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980 for literacy and newspapers; other Yi dialects use different forms.
In Yi text, this is ordinary writing; it does not mark the writer’s mood.
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1Why does ꄠ show as a box?
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- tiep
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ꄠ\A120tiep in a Yi input method and choose the character from the candidates.Codes and encoding1 code points
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