What 𛲂 means
Duployan covers several language-specific shorthand systems.
Émile Duployé adapted older French shorthand for faster, easier-to-learn writing; his method appeared in 1860. In British Columbia, missionaries considered Duployan in 1890; one argued it was simpler to draw than a syllabary being considered for local languages. Le Jeune adapted it for Chinook Jargon and Indigenous languages including Thompson and Shuswap. The Kamloops Wawa (1891–1923) published mostly Chinook Jargon; learners also wrote down songs and read prayers.
Does this affix join to neighboring letters?
No. High affixes stay separate by default.
Duployan is usually written with connected strokes, but its high and low affixes are non-joining and behave typographically like a word or text break.
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Who writes 𛲂
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛲂 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Duployan 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 𛲂
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- duployan shorthand · duployé shorthand · duploye shorthand · duployan stenography
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𛲂\1BC82Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.