There’s an interesting panel at the Lijiang Museum (formerly Dongba Culture Museum) that shows various Naxi characters in comparison with their oracle bone / Egyptian hieroglyph counterparts. Excuse the rubbish blurry cameraphone photo, which was also taken behind a pane of glass:
You get the IPA for the Naxi, but that’s it.
‘Tiger’, la33 in Naxi, is represented in the pictographic script by the striped head (or indeed full body) of the tiger:
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Li Lincan 李霖灿 has the following to say about the character:
“The Naxi divide walking animals into three categories – horned, clawed, and striped. The character for tiger is one of the most frequently appearing characters in the Dongba scriptures, and is often used at the beginning of the scripture. When used to start the story, the character is read ‘ə33 la33 mə33 ʂər55 ɳi33‘, which means ‘in ages past’, or something akin to the English ‘once upon a time’. In scriptures from the Lijiang region, the character is often coloured.”
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