What ૺ means
It served Khoja readers of Arabic religious texts. Developed in the late 19th century, the system put Arabic religious writing into Gujarati script. Its full sign set is first documented in print in 1901; the signs appear in Ithna Ashari and Agakhani Khoja manuscripts and books.
It follows vowel or consonant letters, not vowel signs. On a consonant, it removes the default vowel but does not shape joins as Gujarati virama does. Other nukta marks distinguish consonants. Khoja religious publishing shifted toward Arabic script during the 20th century.
Specialist religious use: Khoja Arabic-to-Gujarati transliteration.
Not a general-purpose Gujarati virama.
Who writes ૺ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions 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.
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How to type or find ૺ
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- sukun · sukoon · Khoja · transliteration · virama
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ૺ\0AFACodes and encoding1 code points
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