What ࡚ means
It marks the vowel quality of a Mandaic vowel letter. It can follow halqa, ushenna, or aksa; in ࡉ࡚, it attaches to the letter before it.
࡚ has no complete reading on its own. Read it with the Mandaic letter it follows.
Where does the Mandaic script come from?
It developed within an Aramaic-related writing tradition. Its exact derivation is debated; scholars connect Mandaic writing with Aramaic-descended and Parthian-related traditions.
The alphabet is associated with Elymaean inscriptions and coins from the 2nd–3rd centuries CE. Its letter order follows Hebrew and other Aramaic traditions, including Syriac.
Scholars place the script's development in the 2nd century or earlier. Mandaean manuscripts preserve prayers, hymns, and ritual instructions; lead tablets and incantation bowls preserve magical texts. The oldest dateable Mandaean magical texts are from the 3rd–4th centuries CE.
Instructional: it makes a Mandaic vowel reading explicit.
A lone ࡚ is incomplete; read it with the Mandaic letter it follows.
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Who writes ࡚
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ࡚ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Mandaic block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ࡚
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࡚\085ACodes and encoding1 code points
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