What ၌ means
The locative postposition — it follows the noun for a place or time.
၌ shortens နှိုက်, a locative spelling common in Bagan-period (1000–1300 CE) texts; medieval inscriptions already show the ancestor nhuik/nhik.
Written Burmese also uses တွင်; a 1915 grammar already contrasted literary hnaik with modern hma (မှာ).
Formal and bookish — the written-register choice.
In casual chat it can read like a textbook.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Myanmar Symbol Genitive
A Bagan-period literary abbreviation like ၌; marks possession or ends a sentence.
Myanmar Symbol Completed
A Bagan-period literary abbreviation like ၌; links clauses — “and” or “because.”
Myanmar Symbol Aforementioned
The other Myanmar abbreviation mark — short for ၎င်း, “the aforementioned.”
မှာ Everyday spoken Burmese uses this after a noun for the same meaning.
Questions people ask
1Why does ၌ show as a box?
A missing Myanmar font shows a box; a Unicode/Zawgyi mismatch also garbles text — Zawgyi is a legacy encoding.
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How to type or find ၌
- Search it as
- hnaik · hnaiq · nhuik · nhik · နှိုက် · မှာ · Burmese locative · Burmese grammar
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
၌CSS
\104CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
၌
HTML hex
၌
CSS content
content: "\104C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%81%8C
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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.