What 𐿠 means
By itself, 𐿠 is a letter, not a word.
The Elymaic aleph is conventionally represented in scholarly transcription by ʾ. That mark identifies the letter; it is not punctuation. Elymaic was a regional script for writing Aramaic in Elymais, in what is now southwestern Iran.
The script developed as a regional tradition used in inscriptions, sanctuary texts, and coin legends. Its attested use spans from the second century BCE to the early third century CE. “Aleph” is a standardized name based on Imperial Aramaic; indigenous Elymaic letter names are not attested. Elymaic has historical links to Parthian, Mandaic, and Characenean scripts. Its precise relationship with Mandaic is disputed: proposals make one an ancestor or descendant of the other, or both descendants of a shared ancestor.
How can I type 𐿠?
Use a system character viewer or Unicode input method.
Elymaic is written right to left. Its encoded letters do not join, even though strokes in some historical inscriptions touch or overlap.
Without context, it signals writing about ancient inscriptions or Unicode.
The shared name aleph does not make Hebrew א, Arabic ا, or Phoenician 𐤀 interchangeable.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐿠 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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How to type or find 𐿠
- Also called
- Elymaean aleph · Elymaic aleph
- Search it as
- elym · aleph Unicode · Elymaic script · Elymaic keyboard · Aramaic aleph · ancient aleph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐿠\10FE0Codes and encoding1 code points
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