What ৽ means
It signals an abbreviated word. Bengali and Assamese print use it, as can other languages written in Bengali script.
A printed example appears in an 1885 Kolkata edition of an annotated Bengali translation of the Sanskrit Sāmaveda Saṁhitā. Bengali printers also used visarga (ঃ) and anusvara (ং)—marks with other language roles—for abbreviations; the full stop gained ground across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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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?
Not every system ships a font for the Bengali 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
- bangla · bengali · assamese · abbrev · abbr
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
৽CSS
\09FDCharacter picker
A Unicode character picker is the fallback; the published CLDR 43 Bangla layout shows no dedicated key for ৽.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
৽
HTML hex
৽
CSS content
content: "\09FD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%A7%BD
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.