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Front Matter

Lisu (Fraser Script)

Alphabet created in 1915 by British missionary James Fraser using uppercase and inverted Latin letters for the Lisu people of China and Myanmar.

ꓐ ꓑ ꓒ ꓓ ꓔ
Era
Modern
Region
SE Asia
System
Alphabet
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
48
Status
Active
Alphabet created in 1915 by British missionary James Fraser using uppercase and inverted Latin letters for the Lisu people of China and Myanmar. Spread rapidly alongside Bible translation; the Lisu achieved near-complete literacy within a single generation — one of the fastest successful script adoptions in modern missionary history. ~1 million Lisu people across China, Myanmar, and Thailand use this script.
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The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+A4D0–U+A4FF
Total signs48
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
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The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Ancestors

Latin Alphabet
VII

In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Lisu

Countries

ChinaMyanmarThailand