What ࣟ means
It marks where a reciter should stop. Waqf guidance shows where pauses shape phrasing and breath. Tajweed is the guidance for reciting the Qur’an; a mushaf is a written copy of the Qur’an. This is recitation notation, not ordinary Arabic punctuation.
The wider pause-mark family developed over time rather than beginning with one invented sign. A study points to a manuscript from the late first Islamic century—the first century of the Islamic calendar—as an early surviving example of that family. This exact form was proposed for Pakistani Qur’ans; South Asian printed mushafs can differ in the signs they use and where they place them.
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Who writes ࣟ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ࣟ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Arabic Extended-A block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ࣟ
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- waqfa · waqf · waqaf · Qur’an pause mark · mushaf · tajweed
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ࣟ\08DFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.