What 𛱉 means
It marks the short-i vowel in Duployan shorthand.
This is an invariant vowel: its direction stays fixed rather than turning to match a neighboring stroke. In Consolidated Duployan, a distinct shorthand variant, the same character can instead represent r t r—three consonants written as one sign.
Émile Duployé published Duployan as shorthand for fast French writing in 1860. It later gained adaptations for English, German, Spanish, and Romanian. In British Columbia, Catholic priest Jean-Marie Le Jeune adapted it as Chinuk pipa for Chinook Jargon, a regional trade language, and other Indigenous languages. The mostly Chinook Jargon newsletter Kamloops Wawa, published 1891–1923, is its largest surviving record.
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Who writes 𛱉
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛱉 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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How to type or find 𛱉
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- duployan · duployan shorthand · chinuk pipa · wawa writing · short i
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𛱉\1BC491BC49 and press Alt+X; if it follows other hexadecimal letters, select the code first.Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1BC49, then press Enter.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.