What 𐡗 means
It is thought to separate topics inside an Imperial Aramaic passage.
Read it as punctuation, not as a letter or a sound to pronounce.
Where does 𐡗 appear in the historical record?
A papyrus from Elephantine preserves it in a fifth-century BCE manuscript.
The Imperial Aramaic script grew out of Phoenician writing and became distinct by the middle of the eighth century BCE. Aramaic became the main administrative language of the Assyrian empire, then the official language of the Achaemenid Persian empire. The Imperial Aramaic script later gave rise to square Hebrew, Arabic, and several scripts used to write Middle Persian languages.
The papyrus is a manuscript of the Ahiqar text. It shows the sign in use by then, not when it originated.
What if someone sends it alone?
By itself, it gives little clue about the sender’s intent.
It may be a historical character sample, a transcription, or a font check. Without an Aramaic passage around it, ask what the sender meant before assigning it a personal message.
Scholarly and archival; it fits an Aramaic transcription or a font test.
Alone, it can look like an unexplained glyph; label it if readers may not know Imperial Aramaic.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsProbably marks a break between topics.
Questions people ask
1Is 𐡗 the same as §?
No. § is the modern section sign; 𐡗 is a separate Imperial Aramaic punctuation mark thought to divide topics.
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How to type or find 𐡗
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- 𐡗 · Aramaic punctuation · Aramaic topic divider · ancient section sign · Imperial Aramaic keyboard
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𐡗\10857Codes and encoding1 code points
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