Marchen Subjoined Letter Cha

It contributes cha inside a Marchen consonant stack. The main consonant sits above it, and vowel marks—the signs that add a vowel—can go around the stack. Together, those elements spell the syllable; this subjoined part is not a complete word by itself.

Accounts of Marchen script history trace its development from Tibetan writing around the seventh century and its use for the Zhang-Zhung language through around the tenth century. In 2013, a Unicode encoding proposal noted that no early Marchen texts were then known and allowed that the script might be a much more recent innovation.

In its 2013 proposal, Unicode named a bronze-seal inscription held at Menri Monastery as one of the earliest known Marchen examples. In modern Bön, a Tibetan religious tradition, Marchen appears in literature and architectural inscriptions and is also used to write Tibetan. Marchung, Pungchen, Pungchung, and Drusha are related Bön scripts, not alternate forms of 𑲗.

How do I place 𑲗 in a Marchen syllable?

Add it after a base consonant to form a stack. The encoded order is a base consonant, then 𑲗, then any needed vowel signs. The full sequence makes a syllable; inserting 𑲗 by itself leaves the spelling incomplete.

Marchen needs complex text shaping: the font and the software that positions script characters must support consonant stacks. Without that support, 𑲗 can appear detached, boxed, or missing instead of joining the stack. Marchen also has thick, angular and thin, rounded calligraphic styles, so an outline difference alone does not mean the letter is different.