What 𑑎 means
It marks a break or fills space at a line margin. In the Newa script, it changes page spacing rather than the wording.
The Suśruta Project, a manuscript research project, describes a related “conspicuous filling sign” in a fifteenth-century Nepalese manuscript (NAK 5-333) and compares it with similar signs in early manuscripts written in Bengali script. Its drawn form is not identical to 𑑎.
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Don't confuse it with
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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
- thaayjaayekaa
- Search it as
- Newa margin filler · Newa punctuation · line margin mark · gap filler sign · placeholder mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𑑎CSS
\1144EHow to type 𑑎
In an editor with Unicode character search, look up U1144E or its Unicode name, “Newa Gap Filler.”
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𑑎
HTML hex
𑑎
CSS content
content: "\1144E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%91%91%8E
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.