What ᰾ means
It closes a sentence or passage in traditional Lepcha writing. It marks a text boundary, not a word break. “Tshook” means “stop” and “cer-wa” means “cross-mark.”
The Lepcha writing system is generally dated to the 17th century. Line breaking keeps this terminal mark with the preceding text and allows a break after it.
Why is tshook cer-wa found in older Lepcha texts?
Traditional punctuation is mainly preserved in copies of old books. As of 2026, everyday Lepcha writing uses commas, full stops, and question marks; Tibetan tsheg is also found sometimes.
A historical, script-specific stop; everyday Lepcha prose usually uses other punctuation.
In a chat, treat it as a text mark first; context carries the tone.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA traditional stop that closes the sentence or passage.
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 ᰾
- Also called
- Lepcha stop cross-mark
- Search it as
- Lepcha stop mark · Lepcha punctuation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᰾\1C3ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.