What 𛰓 means
It marks a voiced sound: your vocal cords vibrate. English “this” begins with it; “thin” begins with the unvoiced partner, written with 𛰑 TH.
The French cleric Émile Duployé published his shorthand in 1860 to write down speech quickly. In 1890, missionary Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune adapted it as Chinook Pipa for Chinook Jargon and other Indigenous languages of interior British Columbia. His account credits Indigenous learner Charlie Alexis Mayous with learning the script and teaching others. The Kamloops Wawa periodical began publishing it in 1891.
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Who writes 𛰓
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛰓 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 𛰓
- Also called
- Chinook Pipa letter DH
- Search it as
- dh · chinook pipa · wawa writing · chinook shorthand · voiced th
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𛰓\1BC13Codes and encoding1 code points
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