Crossword clues for lisu
lisu
Wikipedia
Lisu may refer to:
- Lisu people, an ethnic group of Southeast Asia
- Lisu language, spoken by the Lisu people
- Old Lisu Alphabet or Fraser Alphabet
- Lisu (Unicode block), the block of Unicode characters for the Lisu language.
- Lisu Church, Christian church of the Lisu people
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Lisu is a Unicode block containing characters of the Fraser Lisu alphabet for writing the Lisu language. The Fraser Lisu alphabet (and by extension the block) consists of glyphs resembling capital letters in the basic Latin alphabet either in their standard form or turned upside down. (The addition of the block was subject to significant debate as to whether an entire block was necessary for the alphabet or if the turned letters not already in Unicode could instead be added under the Latin script section. Ultimately, the former approach was taken, and the Lisu letters are thus semantically different from their Latin counterparts.)
This block is supported by a few fonts including DejaVu Sans, Horta, Montagel, Quivira, Segoe UI (since Windows 8).
Usage examples of "lisu".
He was a veteran of Vietnam, at the war's height, in charge of recruiting CIDGs, Civilian Irregular Defense Groups, from the Wa, the Lu, the Lisu, all the mountain tribes of Burma, and from the Mekong Delta-born Cambodians to fight the Viet Cong.
From his longtime contacts among the Wa, the Lu, and the Lisu, he had heard the jungle rumors about Mai's prowess in effecting, as the Chinese termed it, the clouds and the rain, eliciting spectacular orgasms from her lover.