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𛱟

duployan letter wei

Duployan Letter Wei

𛱟 is the Duployan letter Wei, a combined vowel linked to the Salish language family. The script later crossed from French stenography into local-language writing in British Columbia.

Text symbol
Search it as
duployan shorthand · wawa writing · wawa shorthand · chinook shorthand
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𛱟 means

It is a combined-vowel sign in Duployan spelling. “Wei” is the letter’s label, not a universal pronunciation. Unicode associates this form with Salishan, the family of Salish languages.

Émile Duployé published French stenographic shorthand in 1860. In British Columbia, Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune adapted it as Wawa writing for Chinook Jargon and Salish languages; the Kamloops Wawa newsletter used this adaptation from 1891–1923. A French shorthand thus became a working script for other languages.

Don't confuse it with

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𛰀
Duployan Letter H
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰁
Duployan Letter X
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰂
Duployan Letter P
shares “duployan”, “letter”
𛰃
Duployan Letter T
shares “duployan”, “letter”

Questions people ask

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Why does 𛱟 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.

How to type 𛱟

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1BC5F, then Alt+X to get 𛱟.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “duployan letter wei”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1bc5f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𛱟
CSS
\1BC5F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𛱟
HTML hex
𛱟
CSS content
content: "\1BC5F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9B%B1%9F
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Other writing systems815 symbols

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