What ᥀ means
Here, lo is a particle: a short grammatical word that works within a phrase rather than as punctuation.
Limbu tradition credits ninth-century King Srijunga Hang with creating the script, not this sign. A catalogue entry for an early-eighteenth-century Limbu alphabet book does not mention ᥀. A Unicode proposal records it in nineteenth-century manuscripts and distinguishes script forms used between 1928 and the 1970s from the current script.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Spelled-out Limbu form of the particle transcribed in Latin letters as lo.
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.
How to type ᥀
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1940, then Alt+X to get ᥀.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “limbu sign loo”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1940, then Enter or Space.
HTML
᥀CSS
\1940Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
᥀
HTML hex
᥀
CSS content
content: "\1940";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%A5%80
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.