What 𐫡 means
It functions as a consonant letter within words.
The religion founded by Mani used the script for Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Bactrian and Old Uyghur. It is related to Palmyrene Aramaic and Syriac Estrangela; Mandaean writing shares some conventions. Late-antique Mesopotamian bowls preserve related scripts; 4th-century Kellis preserves Manichaean texts in Syriac script. Most Manichaean Turkish texts in Berlin's Turfan collection date from the 8th to 10th centuries. Its Aramaic roots leave Mani's role in its creation uncertain.
In right-to-left words, resh joins on one side. Unicode Standard 18.0 defines its alternate isolated form as a variation sequence. Its historical use cannot be predicted from context, though it often appears at line ends. A box or broken joining usually means the font or shaping engine lacks support.
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Who writes 𐫡
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐫡 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 𐫡
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- resh · r · Manichaean script
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐫡\10AE1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.