What 𐬿 means
It closes a major division in Avestan writing. It is an end-of-section mark, not a word separator or an everyday sentence stop.
The Avestan script developed from Pahlavi, an older script used for Middle Persian, to preserve the details of religious texts as recited. Avestan manuscripts survive from 1288. A printed Avesta edition by Ignacy Pietraszewski, published in 1858–1862, shows 𐬿. Those dates place examples in the manuscript and printed record; they do not date the mark’s invention.
Why is 𐬿 different from 𐬾?
They mark the same boundary in different editorial traditions. 𐬿 has one large ring above two; 𐬾 has two rings above one. Geldner’s 1880 punctuation scheme uses 𐬾 for section endings; the turned form is also attested but absent from his edition.
Specialist punctuation for section boundaries in Avestan texts.
Do not read it as an ordinary period: it marks a larger Avestan section boundary.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings𐬿 closes the section.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐬿 look different in different fonts?
The Unicode 17.0 Avestan chart presents its shapes as examples, not fixed artwork, so fonts can draw the rings with different proportions. A different drawing by itself does not change the character.
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How to type or find 𐬿
- Also called
- Avestan turned end of section · turned end of section
- Search it as
- avesta · avestan · Avestan punctuation · Avestan section mark · ring punctuation · Avestan ring mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐬿\10B3F\U00010B3F in a Python string.\u{10B3F} in a Unicode-aware JavaScript string.𐬿 in HTML.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.