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ꋚ

yi syllable zza

Yi Syllable Zza

In Nuosu, a Yi language, ꋚ means food; the phrase ꋚꁧ means crops. The words around it settle which reading fits.

Text symbol
Also called
zza
Search it as
crops · food · cooked rice · meal · Nuosu · Yi · keyboard · IME
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ꋚ means

It means “food” or “crops” in Nuosu.

This syllable is written zza in the Latin-letter romanization used for Nuosu. A Liangshan lesson uses ꋚ for cooked rice or a meal and gives ꋚꁧ as its word for crops.

Older Yi writing had regional forms and appeared in religious, magical, medical, and genealogical texts. A dated example is an inscription on a bronze bell from 1485. The standardized Liangshan script was devised in 1974 to improve literacy and officially promulgated in 1980. It grew out of older Yi ideographic writing traditions, not Chinese Han characters, and is specific to Liangshan Nuosu.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
ꋚ by itself
Food, cooked rice, or a meal.
ꋚꁧ in a Nuosu phrase
Crops.

Don't confuse it with

4

Combination ideas

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Crops in this Liangshan phrase.

Questions people ask

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Why does ꋚ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ꋚ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A2DA, then Alt+X to get ꋚ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “yi syllable zza”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a2da, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꋚ
CSS
\A2DA
Yi IME
In Microsoft's Yi IME, as of 2026, type `zza`, press Space, then choose ꋚ from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꋚ
HTML hex
ꋚ
CSS content
content: "\A2DA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%8B%9A
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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