What ࢎ means
It marks an abbreviation in historical Persian printing.
The earliest known printed example is a Tehran book from 1825, produced by the Mo'tamedi printing house, which was established in the 1820s. The tail signals that part of a word or formula is omitted; readers restore it from context.
It was cast as a separate piece of type, not drawn as an extension of the previous letter. In digital Arabic-script text, it is its own right-joining character, so a supporting font can shape it with adjacent text.
Why does Arabic vertical tail abbreviate honorifics?
It abbreviates religious honorific formulas in the documented Persian print examples.
After the Arabic letters ṣād (ص) or ʿayn (ع) beside a name, it stands for a praise formula. After a clipped fragment of a divine name, it stands for the rest of a sacred formula. The mark is not sounded out as a letter.
An Urdu honorific abbreviation also appears above the line, but its link to this Persian print practice was described as unclear in 2020. Shared use for abbreviations does not prove one developed from the other.
Historical Persian print notation; it signals abbreviation, not casual shorthand.
Do not treat it as a generic ellipsis: it stands for wording tied to a specific word or formula.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
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2Questions people ask
1Why does ࢎ 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.
How to type ࢎ
ࢎ\088ECodes and encoding1 code points
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