What ᠁ means
It marks missing or unfinished text. Use it when speech trails off or stumbles, or when a quotation skips words.
The circa 1225 Genghis Stele is the earliest surviving Mongol-script text cited by the sources, not evidence that ᠁ appears there. Mongol bichig developed from Old Uyghur; Todo and Manchu are adaptations, and Sibe descends through Manchu. As of 2026, no consulted source establishes ᠁'s first use or a meaning change by period.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does ᠁ 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.
How to type ᠁
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1801, then Alt+X to get ᠁.
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 “mongolian ellipsis”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1801, then Enter or Space.
HTML
᠁CSS
\1801Palette
Copy it from the palette above.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
᠁
HTML hex
᠁
CSS content
content: "\1801";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%A0%81
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.