What 𐬹 means
Read it as “written earlier.” In Avestan manuscripts, 𐬹 marks an abbreviated passage. The oldest dated example is from 1278.
The Pahlavi script was used for Middle Persian; ōh (“thus”) pointed to earlier wording. Karl F. Geldner reused the mark in footnotes of his 1880 Avesta edition, a collection of Zoroastrian sacred texts, to save space.
Avestan manuscript shorthand.
A similar ring or dot is not an abbreviation cue.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐬹 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Avestan 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 𐬹
- Search it as
- Avestan shorthand · Avestan repeat mark · Pahlavi ōh
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𐬹CSS
\10B39Unicode hex input
Enter 10B39 with a Unicode hexadecimal input method; display requires an Avestan-capable font.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐬹
HTML hex
𐬹
CSS content
content: "\10B39";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%AC%B9
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.