Yi syllable tuop

It represents one Nuosu syllable, not a standalone reaction.

In the Liangshan standard, each sign represents a syllable. The final p in the romanization tuop marks a low-falling tone: the voice drops to a low pitch. It is a tone mark, not a final consonant. The syllable's place in a Nuosu word or sentence supplies its meaning.

Yi writing is not one form shared by every Yi community. The Liangshan standard is specifically for Nuosu.

How did Yi writing develop?

It grew through local traditions before a modern Liangshan standard.

A Nuosu tradition credits Aki with creating Yi writing during the Tang dynasty (618–907). The clearest widely cited surviving example is a bronze-bell inscription dated 1485; the dates of earlier proposed inscriptions are disputed.

Older Yi writing traditions included local forms used by village bimo, ritual specialists who wrote religious, magical, medical, and family-history texts. By the Ming dynasty, related forms were used in parts of Yunnan and Guizhou. The modern Liangshan standard descends from Classical Yi: it was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980 for the Liangshan variety of Nuosu, not for every Yi language.

How do I type ꄨ?

Use a Yi input method and select the matching syllable.

On Windows, add the Yi input method, switch with Win+Space, type the romanized syllable tuop, then choose ꄨ from the candidates. Its tone is part of the syllable, so a candidate with another tone is different.

In HTML, write ꄨ. In a programming language that supports Unicode escapes, write \uA128.