What ։ means
It closes the sentence; a colon does another job.
Armenian punctuation is documented from the fifth century, though few manuscripts from the fifth through eighth centuries survive; inscriptions and grammar commentaries fill part of the gap. Early marks guided syntax and reading aloud; rules were formalized in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
A 2008 study traces three Armenian marks for the voice's rise and fall to Greek accent signs; Armenian grammar also adapted the model of Dionysius Thrax, a Greek grammarian. This points to Greek influence on the wider system, not a Greek origin for ։.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ։ 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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How to type or find ։
- Search it as
- verjaket · վերջակետ · Armenian period · Armenian colon · Armenian punctuation · sentence stop
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
։\0589Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.