U+A022 "ꀢ" Yi Syllable Buox Unicode Character

U+A022 "ꀢ" Yi Syllable Buox is part of the Yi Syllables block, which encodes the classic Yi script used for the Nuosu language spoken in southwestern China. This specific character represents a syllable with the phonetic value "buox" in the standard Yi romanization system, where the final "x" indicates a particular tone, specifically the low-falling tone. In written Nuosu, the Yi Syllable Buox forms an integral component of the syllabary, functioning as a distinct lexical unit within the language's writing system, which was standardized in the 1970s based on the Liangshan dialect.