What ꩟ means
It marks the largest break. In Eastern Cham, ꩟ divides paragraphs; other Cham punctuation marks divide smaller units.
Cham writing grew from Pallava writing, a script used in southern India, around 200 CE. That dates the writing system, not ꩟. Eastern Cham uses Cham script; Western Cham communities in Cambodia use Arabic script.
Formal Cham punctuation for marking large divisions in text.
It marks structure, not emphasis.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ꩟ show as a box?
It can. The font may lack this Cham character; the box changes its display, not the text's punctuation.
How to type ꩟
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType AA5F, 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 “cham punctuation triple danda”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType aa5f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꩟CSS
\AA5FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꩟
HTML hex
꩟
CSS content
content: "\AA5F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%A9%9F
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.