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nko dantayalan

N’Ko Dantayalan

In N’Ko, ߽ marks an abbreviation for a measurement unit. It follows the letter or group of letters that identifies the unit.

Text symbol
Search it as
dantayalan · N’Ko unit abbreviation · N’Ko measurement abbreviation · unit abbreviation · measurement sign · unit mark
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ߽ means

It marks a compact abbreviation for a unit of measure.

As a unit abbreviation in N’Ko, dantayalan attaches to the letter or group of letters that identifies the measure. Examples include abbreviations for kilometre, gram, metre, litre, millimetre and square centimetre.

N’Ko was devised in 1949. A 2012 N’Ko grammar and map legends document this measurement use. Its Unicode encoding in 2018 records the character, not the start of the practice.

Technical notation for compact unit names.

If ߽ looks detached, check the font: it should join the unit letters along their baseline.

Don't confuse it with

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◌̪
The dotted circle is a placeholder: ◌̪ is U+032A, a combining bridge below used as a phonetic mark; ߽ marks N’Ko unit abbreviations.

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type ߽

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 07FD, then Alt+X to get ߽.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “nko dantayalan”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 07fd, then Enter or Space.
HTML
߽
CSS
\07FD
Keyman N’Ko 1.0
It lists no dedicated key for ߽. Type the unit letters first, then insert U+07FD with a Unicode input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
߽
HTML hex
߽
CSS content
content: "\07FD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DF%BD
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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