What 𛱘 means
It marks one vowel in Sloan’s English shorthand.
Émile Duployé published the French shorthand in 1860 for fast speech notes. J. M. Sloan adapted it for English in the early 1880s; this sign belongs to his vowel set.
In British Columbia, missionary Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune adapted Duployan for Chinook Jargon and regional Indigenous languages, including Okanagan, Lillooet, Shuswap, and North Thompson. By December 1890, local learner Charlie Alexis Mayous taught the script; Kamloops Wawa (1891–1923) preserves examples. In joined writing, neighboring strokes shape how letters connect, so this sign is one part of a word outline.
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Who writes 𛱘
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛱘 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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𛱘\1BC58Codes and encoding1 code points
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