What 𛰁 means
It marks a consonant in a Salishan version of Duployan.
Émile Duployé published Duployan in 1860 as French shorthand. Later, Catholic missionary Jean-Marie Le Jeune adapted it in British Columbia as Chinuk pipa (“Chinook writing”), for Chinook Jargon (a regional trade language) and Indigenous languages. The Kamloops Wawa newsletter ran 1891–1923. Le Jeune reported in 1893 that readers corresponded and read books in it.
Can Duployan X mean h?
Yes, in one Chinuk Pipa keyboard reference.
Unicode links 𛰁 to Salishan use; D. S. Corbett’s Chinuk Pipa keyboard page, as of 2026, calls it a less common h variant. The labels belong to different adaptations, so the name does not set one universal sound.
It is non-joining: its stroke stays separate from neighboring letters.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𛰁 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 𛰁
𛰁\1BC01Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.