What 𑀎 means
A syllabic l forms a syllable without another vowel. The shorter independent partner is 𑀍, Brahmi’s vocalic-l letter; 𑀎 marks the long value. After a consonant, Brahmi uses a dependent vowel sign instead of this standalone letter.
A 2008 encoding proposal describes Brahmi’s vocalic-l signs as rare in ordinary texts.
The earliest surviving Brahmi inscriptions are Aśoka’s public edicts—official orders—from the third century BCE. Brahmi first served Middle Indo-Aryan languages, an older Indo-Aryan language group, and was adapted for Sanskrit in the first to third centuries CE. Those dates trace the script, not the first use of this individual letter.
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Who writes 𑀎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𑀎 show as a box?
Some fonts do not include Brahmi letters, so this character may appear as a missing-glyph box or empty space. A font with Brahmi support can render it.
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How to type or find 𑀎
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- ḹ · l̥̄ · Brahmi vocalic l · Brahmi vocalic ll · long syllabic l · syllabic l
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𑀎\1100ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.