Yi

ISO 15924: YiiiSyllabary14 total languages
IANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

ꆈꌠꉙꆈꌠꉙꆈꌠꉙ

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Writing Direction
Direction
Left-to-right
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
None / unusual
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt
LTR value derived from Unicode CLDR script metadata.
Script Properties
Family
Sino-Tibetan / Yi
Geographic origin
East Asia
Usage status
Living script
OpenType tag
yi
Yi syllabary (Nuosu). The modern standardized Yi script was created in 1975. Used by the Yi (Nuosu) people of Sichuan, Yunnan, and adjacent areas of China.

Unicode Blocks

Yi SyllablesU+A000Yi RadicalsU+A490

2 Unicode blocks contain Yi characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →

The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.

Language-specific characters and typing resources

A script does not have one alphabet shared by every language. Compare these directly sourced CLDR locale repertoires.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
14

Sichuan Yi
iii
Eastern Nisu
nos
Southern Nisu
nsd
Northwestern Nisu
nsf
Southwestern Nisu
nsv
Mantsi
nty
Samei
smh
Wusa Nasu
yig
Northern Nisu
yiv
Samatao
ysd
Sani
ysn
Southern Lolopo
ysp
Wuding-Luquan Yi
ywq
Wumeng Nasu
ywu