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nko lajanyalan

NKo Lajanyalan

ߺ is the line extender in NKo, a script used for West African Manding languages. Beside letters it lengthens the baseline without adding sound; with a space on each side, it can mark te-kerende between repeated units, an “each and every” construction.

Text symbol
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NKo · tatweel · kashida · te-kerende · hyphen · NKo extender
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ߺ means

It stretches joined writing or links repeated forms, depending on spaces. Arabic tatweel, also called kashida, is its functional counterpart: both lengthen writing without adding a sound. NKo layout guidance (2023) documents a literal space on each side when ߺ marks te-kerende.

N’Ko’s first reported appearance was at Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire, on 14 April 1949; the date is treated as an assigned milestone. Sulemaana Kantè created it to support literacy in West Africa’s Manding languages, education in people’s first languages, and Islamic learning.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
Joined to NKo letters
Line extender; adds no sound.
Space ߺ space between repeats
Te-kerende links repeated forms as “each and every.”

Don't confuse it with

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Hyphen-Minus
A hyphen is punctuation; ߺ extends NKo writing or links repeated forms.

Combination ideas

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“Every night,” in a documented te-kerende phrase.

Questions people ask

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Why does ߺ 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 ߺ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 07FA, then Alt+X to get ߺ.
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 lajanyalan”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 07fa, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ߺ
CSS
\07FA
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ߺ
HTML hex
ߺ
CSS content
content: "\07FA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DF%BA
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes

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

Families this belongs to

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