What ᨞ means
It marks a spoken-rhythm boundary between phrases or sentences.
Traditional Bugis manuscripts can run words together, so pallawa separates larger phrase units. Some Latin transcriptions omit the mark, making that original pause harder to see.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ᨞
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1A1E, then Alt+X to get ᨞.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “buginese pallawa”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1a1e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
᨞CSS
\1A1ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
᨞
HTML hex
᨞
CSS content
content: "\1A1E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%A8%9E
1
On screen
1
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.