What means
It marks the preceding Garay consonant as doubled.
Gemination means pronouncing a consonant for longer. follows the consonant it modifies.
Assane Faye published Garay for Wolof in Senegal in January 1961, shortly after independence. The script was designed for writing Wolof and emerged amid wider efforts to develop African writing systems.
Why does this mark look detached?
A detached mark usually points to a font or direction issue.
has no spacing of its own, so it needs a Garay consonant and suitable font positioning. Notes dated 26 March 2026 reported that a prototype Garay font misplaced combining marks above uppercase letters. Garay runs right to left; mixed text can look misplaced if its base direction is set incorrectly.
A functional spelling mark in Garay; it belongs on a consonant rather than standing alone.
Alone, has no consonant to modify; treat it as a detached combining mark.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
2Questions people ask
1Why does 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
𐵪\10D6ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.