What ꊎ means
It is one Nuosu syllable; its reading depends on the word. The standard Liangshan Yi script uses it as a syllable, not a fixed translation. In the standard Latin-letter spelling used for lookup and input, it is written zix; final x marks the secondary-high tone, a distinct Nuosu pitch category.
The older Yi writing tradition was also called Cuan or Wei. One traditional account credits Aki with its creation during the Tang dynasty. Some scholars propose that inscriptions from the Western Han period are Yi writing, but a bronze bell inscription from 1485 is the earliest surviving dated example; surviving paper texts reach at least the late Ming. In traditional Yi communities, bimo priests (local ritual specialists) copied religious, magical, and medical works.
The standardized Liangshan Yi syllabary was devised in 1974 from older Yi writing and formally promulgated in 1980 to support literacy. It writes the Liangshan variety, also called Nuosu, not every Yi variety.
Language-specific and technical; natural in Nuosu text, hard to interpret by itself.
For the actual word, read the surrounding Nuosu text; ꊎ alone may not identify it.
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Who writes ꊎ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsIt identifies a Yi/Nuosu syllable, but not a dependable word-level translation.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
2Is ꊎ a Chinese character?
No. It belongs to the standardized Yi syllabary used for Nuosu; it is not a Han character used to write Chinese.
Why does ꊎ show as a box?
It can. A font without Yi coverage may trigger font fallback that shows a box or substitute glyph; the character's identity stays the same.
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How to type or find ꊎ
- Search it as
- zix · Nuosu · Nosu · Liangshan Yi · Sichuan Yi · Yi script · Yi keyboard · Yi IME
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꊎ\A28ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.