What 𛲕 means
It adds French -ière or marks a shorthand percentage.
The low circle sits beside the word root, below a neighboring letter, rather than joining it like an ordinary cursive stroke. In French shorthand, context separates the suffix from the percentage use. When other affixes appear, their logical encoding order can differ from their displayed order, so read the whole outline.
How did Duployan reach another writing tradition?
Émile Duployé published the system in 1860 as French stenographic shorthand, a way to record speech quickly. Its affixes condense recurring endings into small signs. Around 1890, Father Le Jeune adapted it to Chinook Jargon; the Kamloops Wawa publication carried that community writing from 1891–1923. Identify the orthography before assigning this low affix a reading.
This belongs to specialist Duployan shorthand, not everyday punctuation.
The percent reading belongs to French shorthand; it is not a general percent sign.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsDon't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a box?
A box usually means the font lacks this glyph. If a font includes it but the shape still looks wrong, the app may lack Duployan shaping support. The box is a display failure, not another reading.
How to type 𛲕
𛲕\1BC95Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.