Yi syllable yox

It writes one Nuosu Yi syllable in the Liangshan standard. yox is Yi Pinyin, a Latin-letter system for writing Nuosu syllables and tones; its final x marks a secondary-high tone, not an x sound. The surrounding word supplies the syllable’s lexical meaning.

The earliest surviving example cited for the writing tradition is a bronze-bell inscription dated 1485; claims for earlier inscriptions remain debated.

Older Yi manuscripts in varied local traditions were used by village priests for ritual, medicine, and genealogy. Yi writing is not generally considered a borrowing from Chinese characters or neighboring Tibetan, Burmese, and Tai scripts. The Liangshan standard was devised in 1974 and officially promulgated in 1980 to improve literacy; later it appeared in official documents, newspapers, and literature.

How do I type ꑾ?

Enter yox in a Yi Pinyin input method. Choose the matching syllable from its suggestions. In a general editor, use its Unicode-entry command for U+A47E; the font also needs Yi coverage to display the character.

This is the standardized Liangshan form of Nuosu, one Yi language, not a spelling for every Yi language. Older local writing traditions include forms called Cuan and Wei; those names refer to distinct traditions, not alternate spellings of this syllable.