What 𛱌 means
It represents the “eh” vowel inside a Sloan-Duployan outline.
Émile Duployé’s French shorthand was published in 1860 to record speech quickly. J. M. Sloan’s English adaptation was in print by 1883; this sign belongs to that branch.
In the 1890s, Catholic priest Jean-Marie Le Jeune separately adapted Duployan in British Columbia for Chinook Jargon, a regional trade language, and several languages in the Salish family, an Indigenous language family of the area. That adaptation supported local reading and writing, including a newspaper; this vowel belongs to Sloan’s English branch.
A specialist shorthand vowel; the surrounding Sloan outline supplies the reading.
Without that context, don’t treat it as a whole English word.
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Who writes 𛱌
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛱌 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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- sloan duployan · sloan shorthand · stenography · shorthand vowel
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𛱌\1BC4CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.