01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
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.
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.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample 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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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
08REACH