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𛱒

duployan letter eu

Duployan letter Eu

𛱒 is an orienting vowel in Duployan shorthand. French uses it as EU; the Romanian adaptation uses it for “an.” In the 1890s, the shorthand crossed from fast note-taking into community writing in interior British Columbia.

Text symbol
Search it as
eu · an · steno · stenography · chinuk · romanian
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𛱒 means

It is a vowel sign whose stroke turns to fit the preceding consonant. In French use, a contextual dot may mark the vowel.

Émile Duployé published the French shorthand in 1860 for quick note-taking. In the 1890s, Catholic missionary Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune adapted it as Chinuk pipa for Chinook Jargon, a regional trade language, and Indigenous languages including Secwepemctsín and Nlaka’pamux. Mission teaching and religious print shaped its spread; Indigenous readers taught one another, exchanged letters and wrote in their languages.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
French shorthand passage
EU vowel; the French form may be dotted.
Romanian shorthand passage
Value: “an.”

Don't confuse it with

4
𛰀
Duployan Letter H
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰁
Duployan Letter X
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰂
Duployan Letter P
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰃
Duployan Letter T
shares “duployan”, “letter”

Questions people ask

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Why does 𛱒 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 𛱒

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1BC52, then Alt+X to get 𛱒.
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 “duployan letter eu”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1bc52, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𛱒
CSS
\1BC52
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𛱒
HTML hex
𛱒
CSS content
content: "\1BC52";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9B%B1%92
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Other writing systems815 symbols

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