Yi Syllable Yuox

It names one Liangshan Yi syllable, not an English gloss.

“Yuox” is its Latin-letter spelling; final x marks tone (pitch), not a consonant. Yi context supplies meaning.

Older Yi writing, called Cuan or Wei, varied locally; village ritual specialists passed down ritual, magic, medical and family-history texts. Its signs appear unrelated in origin to Han characters. A tradition credits Aki in the Tang dynasty; the oldest dated survivor of the older writing is a 1485 bronze-bell inscription. The Liangshan standard grew from these forms in 1974 and was promulgated in 1980 to improve literacy; it covers Liangshan Yi alone.