What 𛰌 means
It is one Duployan sign built from P and N.
The Unicode chart links it to the separate Duployan letters P and N. In Sloan-Duployan, the corresponding sign is named “B B.”
Duployan grew beyond French shorthand
Duployé learned an earlier French shorthand method, itself revised by the stenographers Conen de Prépéan and Aimé Paris. He and his brother simplified that tradition and published their method in 1860 to speed writing and support literacy. In 1890–1891, Catholic missionary Jean-Marie Le Jeune adapted it as Chinuk pipa for Chinook Jargon and neighboring Indigenous languages, including Secwepemc, Nlaka’pamux, and Okanagan. The newspaper Kamloops Wawa carried lessons, prayers, and local news; Indigenous readers taught one another and exchanged letters in the script.
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Who writes 𛰌
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Questions people ask
1Why does this sign look different inside a word?
In written Duployan, letters join in a flowing stroke. Nearby signs can change the outline, so the standalone chart form may look different within a word.
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How to type or find 𛰌
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- duployan · duployé · stenography · shorthand · sloan
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𛰌\1BC0CCodes and encoding1 code points
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