What 𐫜 means
It stands for the f sound inside a word.
The Manichaean script developed from Aramaic-related writing, with connections to Palmyrene Aramaic and Estrangela Syriac. It is also closely related to writing found on Mesopotamian magic bowls—inscribed bowls from that region—and appears in Manichaean manuscripts from Central Asia.
Manichaeism is a religion founded in the third century CE; its followers used the script to record teachings in Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Bactrian, and Uyghur. Spelling conventions and letter inventories changed as communities used it in different languages; 𐫜 remained a spelling unit inside words.
Why does 𐫜 show as a box or disconnect?
Font and shaping support determine whether it displays correctly.
Manichaean writing runs right to left, and its letters join by rules similar to Syriac and Arabic. A font or app without those shaping rules may show a missing box or disconnected form. As of 2026, Microsoft documents Windows shaping support but warns that some apps using non-system fonts may still fail.
It fits historical-script, language-history, or typography contexts.
Alone in a chat, it gives little clue what you mean; add the word or explain that it is a historical letter.
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Who writes 𐫜
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐫜 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 𐫜
- Search it as
- manichaean fe · manichaean f letter · mani script · manichaean alphabet · manichaean writing · right-to-left script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐫜\10ADCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.