Khojki Danda

It closes a sentence in Khojki writing. Danda belongs to a wider tradition of vertical punctuation used in Brahmi-derived scripts—writing systems descended from the ancient South Asian Brahmi script. In Khojki manuscripts, 𑈸 marks a sentence boundary; the separate double danda 𑈹 can close a sentence too or mark a verse section. Longer passages may use other section marks, and printed Khojki may mix in punctuation from Latin-script writing.

Khojki developed and was refined among Khoja communities as a written medium for local languages and Ismaili Muslim devotional works, including ginans, devotional hymns and teachings. The documented manuscript corpus spans the 18th–20th centuries. Its deeper ancestry is unsettled: proposed links include merchant writing systems called Landa and older material associated with Banbhore, but a direct line has not been established.

Why does 𑈸 look like another danda?

The broad role is shared; the character is script-specific. Danda marks belong to a wider Brahmi-derived tradition. A visually similar danda used in the Devanagari script has a comparable boundary role but is a separate character, so the two are not interchangeable. If a font lacks Khojki coverage, this glyph may appear as an empty box even though the character is still present.

How do I type 𑈸 exactly?

Enter U+11238 with a Unicode-aware editor. Use the editor's Unicode code-point input, then choose a font with Khojki coverage to display the glyph.