What 𑊏 means
It is the sound written “ñ” in Spanish. Its Latin-letter form is nya.
Multani (also called Karikki or Sarai) developed from the Landa script around Multan and northern Sindh in the 18th century. It served routine and commercial writing; metal type later enabled literary printing, beginning with a New Testament, part of the Christian Bible. The script is related to Gurmukhi and more distantly to Khudawadi and Khojki. British adoption of Arabic script for Sindh in the 19th century pushed it out of use.
Multani often leaves vowels unmarked and writes consonant clusters as separate letters, so context helps supply the syllable reading. In records from 1819–1916, 𑊏 appears in writing but not print; no printed model for it is attested there.
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Who writes 𑊏
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𑊏 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 𑊏
- Search it as
- nya · karikki · sarai · saraiki · landa · landā
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𑊏\1128FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.