What ᠅ means
It marks the end of a substantial passage.
Traditional Mongolian script runs from top to bottom, with columns progressing from left to right. Within that writing, ᠅ helps mark the structure of the text: a paragraph, a verse stanza, a topic or a chapter has finished.
In Buddhist manuscripts, it can close a topic or chapter and sometimes appears stacked with other closing punctuation.
The mark predates computers by centuries
᠅ is recorded in an early 14th-century Mongolian manuscript. Nineteenth-century Khalkha and Buryat manuscripts show variant forms serving the same closing function. The precise drawing can vary while its role remains the same.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Worth knowing
- During the Yuan dynasty, texts in Phags-pa, another script used under Mongol rule, borrowed Mongolian punctuation, including ᠅.
Questions people ask
1Why does the spacing around it look different?
Font handling can differ. Traditional vertical Mongolian sets punctuation apart from the text with spaces; a 2019 Unicode working-group report documented differences in spacing treatment. Check the rendered result when reproducing a page's layout.
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How to type or find ᠅
- Search it as
- fourfold dot · Mongolian chapter mark · four dots in a diamond
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᠅\1805Codes and encoding1 code points
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