What ꬫ means
ꬫ is a Gumuz letter in the Ethiopic syllabary.
The Ethiopic script was first used to write Geʽez, an Ethiopian language, and grew from Old South Arabian writing. That older script recorded consonants while leaving most vowels unmarked. Around the 4th century, Ethiopic became a left-to-right syllabary: its characters combine consonant and vowel values into syllables.
A 2009 Unicode proposal says the Gumuz characters were already in use and cites a 2003 Gumuz New Testament. It says encoding them mattered for reproducing existing Ethiopic-script books, even after Ethiopia approved a Latin orthography for Gumuz in 2007.
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Who writes ꬫ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꬫ 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 ꬫ
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- Gumuz letter · Ethiopic writing · Geʽez script · Gumuz syllabary
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꬫ\AB2BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.