SIL Yi Keyboard Help

Yi keyboard layout using pinyin input for typing standard Nuosu Yi characters and basic full-width punctuation. Text generated will be in utf-8 encoding, and can be viewed with a font such as Nuosu SIL. Type a Nuosu Yi syllable in roman letters, then SPACE to convert to the syllabary character. Punctuation is full-width - note the keystrokes at the bottom of the list for typing things like book title brackets and left and right Chinese quotation marks. For instance, typing two left angle brackets in a row will produce a Chinese left double book title bracket. Typing a backslash produces a Chinese dunhao. Typing two left single quotes in a row produces a full-width left double quotation mark.

Typing Yi syllabes

To type a Yi syllable, type the pinyin romanization for that syllable, followed by a space.

Press w then space to type ꀕ, the syllable iteration mark (used to reduplicate a preceding syllable).

Typing punctuation

All Documentation Versions

• SIL Yi Keyboard Help 1.3.1
• SIL Yi Keyboard Help 1.3
• SIL Yi Keyboard Help 1.2.3
• SIL Yi Keyboard Help 1.2.2
• SIL Yi Keyboard Help 1.2.1
• SIL Yi Keyboard Help 1.2