What ࢋ means
Pegon uses a retroflex t; Sorabe uses voiceless t.
Pegon is an Arabic-based way of writing Javanese. There, the underdot distinguishes this t from the unmarked series. Sorabe is an Arabic-based writing tradition for Malagasy; it uses underdotted tah for voiceless t. Scholars connect the shared underdot convention to probable Javanese contact.
A Pegon manuscript dated 1623 witnesses the broader script tradition, while 18th-century Malagasy Sorabe manuscripts and an early-19th-century British Library manuscript preserve the underdotted form. The letter joins to neighboring Arabic letters, so its shape can change within a word. A box on screen usually means the font lacks coverage.
Specialist letter used in Pegon and Sorabe writing.
The dot belongs to the letter; it is not punctuation.
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Who writes ࢋ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ࢋ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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ࢋ\088BCodes and encoding1 code points
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