What 𛰉 means
It marks the V consonant in a Duployan outline.
Duployan is a shorthand system: its strokes represent speech so it can be written quickly. This letter is one consonant sign, not a whole word. Its precise transcription depends on the language-specific Duployan system and the letters around it.
Why was Duployan shorthand created
It was designed to write French speech quickly.
Émile Duployé published the original system in 1860 for French stenography, or rapid note-taking. Its lines and curves made a compact way to record speech rather than ordinary spelling.
The system was later adapted to English, German, Spanish, and Romanian. Around 1890, Father Jean-Marie Lejeune adapted it for Chinook Jargon and several Salishan languages in British Columbia. That version appeared in the Kamloops Wawa, published 1891–1923, where Duployan served as a writing system for those communities.
Specialist and archival: used in Duployan writing, not ordinary everyday text.
Alone, 𛰉 is a letter sample, not a complete shorthand reading.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does Duployan look different in fonts
Duployan letters can join, overlap, or take contextual forms in a written outline. The visible shape can therefore vary with neighboring letters and the font's shaping support.
How to type 𛰉
𛰉\1BC09Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.