Yi syllable yyrx

It represents one Nuosu syllable within a word.

Yi Pinyin is the Latin-letter system used to write Nuosu syllables. In that system, ꒋ is yyrx: final x marks a mid-high tone (a pitch above the language’s middle tone), and is not pronounced as an extra consonant.

How did Yi writing develop?

It developed into distinct regional traditions. In traditional Yi society, bimo—ritual specialists—used writing especially for religious, magical, and medical texts passed through local communities. Those traditions differed in form, sound, writing direction, and readability.

Early Yi inscriptions are reported from the Western Han period (206 BCE–9 CE); a stone tablet is dated 223–237 CE, and surviving paper and parchment texts date to around 1500.

The Liangshan Standard Yi Script drew on older Northern Yi forms and was developed and spread between the 1950s and early 1980s; it came to be used in official documents, newspapers, literature, and traditional texts. Cuan wen is a historical name for likely antecedents of later Yi scripts. Yi writing is structurally separate from Chinese and nearby Tibetan, Burmese, and Tai writing systems.