What 𛱪 means
It is an orienting vowel in connected writing. Duployan signs join into continuous outlines; this vowel helps set a neighboring stroke’s direction instead of sitting as a separate accent on another letter.
How did Duployan move beyond French?
It began as French shorthand for writing speech quickly. Émile Duployé published the system in France in 1860. Later English adaptations included Denis Perrault’s system, where this character is a vowel-plus-M sign rather than a plain consonant M.
A separate branch became Chinook writing: Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune adapted Duployan for Chinook Jargon and other Indigenous languages in interior British Columbia. The Kamloops Wawa, a Chinook Jargon newsletter, used that script from 1891–1923. This is a related branch, not another reading for this Perrault character.
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Who writes 𛱪
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𛱪 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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𛱪\1BC6A𛱪; the hexadecimal character reference resolves to this exact character.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.