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𑱼

marchen letter da

Marchen letter da

𑱼 is the Marchen letter da, a consonant sign used inside words. The script first served to write the Zhangzhung language and later appeared in Bön liturgical texts. Alone, the letter gives little clue to a sender’s intent.

Text symbol
Also called
Greater Mar script · sMar-chen · Zhang-zhung alphabet
Search it as
Marchen da · Marchen script · Marchen alphabet · Marchung · Zhangzhung writing · Bön script
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𑱼 means

It is the base consonant called da in Marchen.

Marchen evolved from Tibetan writing, first used for the Zhangzhung language, then for Bön liturgy in Tibetan. Bön is a Tibetan religious tradition. Marchung, Pungchen, Pungchung, and Drusha are related scripts, not alternate names for Marchen.

A 2011 encoding proposal cites a Menri bronze seal (an inscribed metal seal) among the earliest known Marchen examples. It gives no first attestation for 𑱼 itself, so that artifact does not date this particular letter.

Read this as Marchen script; surrounding text supplies the message.

A lone letter cannot show why someone sent it.

Don't confuse it with

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𑲜
Marchen Subjoined Letter Da
shares “da”, “letter”, “marchen”
𑱲
Marchen Letter Ka
shares “letter”, “marchen”
𑱳
Marchen Letter Kha
shares “letter”, “marchen”
𑱴
Marchen Letter Ga
shares “letter”, “marchen”

Questions people ask

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Why can 𑱼 look wrong in a stack?

It can when 𑱼 begins a deep stack (several consonants combined vertically). A 2021 font note records the i-vowel sign’s upright stroke at the wrong height on Windows 10 or with HarfBuzz, software that arranges letters and marks.

How to type 𑱼

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 11C7C, then Alt+X to get 𑱼.
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 “marchen letter da”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 11c7c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𑱼
CSS
\11C7C
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𑱼
HTML hex
𑱼
CSS content
content: "\11C7C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%91%B1%BC
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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