Yi Syllable Yyt

It is the Nuosu Yi syllable yyt: “reap” or “cut.”

A Nuosu lexicon published in 2022 also lists “harvest” and “cut with a saw.” In the standard Liangshan spelling written with Latin letters, the final t in yyt marks a high tone—a higher-pitched syllable—not a final t sound.

Older Yi writing had many regional forms. The earliest surviving monumental example of Yi writing identified in the Unicode account is a bronze bell from 1485; another account mentions inscriptions claimed to date to the Western Han period as possible earlier evidence. Bimo priests—religious specialists—used older Yi writing for religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. The Liangshan syllabary was devised in 1974 and promulgated in 1980 to support literacy. Unicode describes traditional Yi characters as apparently independent of Chinese Han characters.

How do I type ꒇ?

Use a Yi input method or a Yi syllable keyboard.

A Yi input method (IME) turns romanized syllables into candidate characters. Enter yyt and choose ꒇ from the list; a standard Latin keyboard has no dedicated key for this character.