What ᠆ means
It marks a split word at the start of the next line.
A Mongolian hyphen starts the next line at a word break; an ordinary hyphen normally stays at the end of the first line.
Todo (“clear” in Mongolian) was devised by Zaya Pandita in 1648 as a modified Mongolian script. Its spelling reflects Oirat-Kalmyk varieties of Mongolian rather than the literary standard. Traditional Mongolian writing descends from Old Uyghur script. A study identifies a 1691 letter as the earliest dated Todo manuscript and describes the transition as gradual.
Technical punctuation used in Mongolian-script word layout.
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Don't confuse it with
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The ordinary U+00AD soft hyphen is normally invisible until an optional break is used; ᠆ is visible.
Questions 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.
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How to type or find ᠆
- Also called
- Todo hyphen · Mongolian hyphen
- Search it as
- Mongolian Todo hyphen · Mongolian soft hyphen · soft hyphen U+1806 · Todo script · Clear Script · todo-bichig · line break
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᠆\1806Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.