What 𛱦 means
It marks the nasal “am” sound in Pernin shorthand. A nasal vowel is made with air passing through both the mouth and nose. Pernin used this sign in a sound-based system for writing speech.
Émile Duployé published the parent French shorthand in 1860 as a way to record speech quickly. A Pernin English adaptation had reached the United States by 1877. This Am sign belongs to that variant, not to every form of Duployan.
Pernin Am keeps a fixed orientation. Basic Duployan nasal vowels can shift or sit by a neighboring stroke; this Pernin sign does not.
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Who writes 𛱦
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛱦 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.
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𛱦\1BC66Codes and encoding1 code points
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