What ꧋ means
It marks the beginning of a paragraph or section. The next words start a new text unit.
Javanese punctuation guides by Ballhorn from 1864 and in a separate 1924 reference document the sign. Historical illustrations also show it at a poem section and in a Javanese Qur’an translation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Pada guru (uger-uger): a correspondence opening that leaves relative rank unstated.
Questions people ask
1Why does ꧋ show as a box?
A font without Javanese glyph support may replace it with a missing-character box or fallback shape.
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How to type or find ꧋
- Search it as
- adeg-adeg · adeg adeg · pada adeg adeg · Javanese paragraph opener · Javanese punctuation · pada guru
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
꧋CSS
\A9CBUnicode
To type ꧋, enter UA9CB in a Unicode-aware editor with a Javanese-capable font.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꧋
HTML hex
꧋
CSS content
content: "\A9CB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%A7%8B
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.