What 𐎼 means
It is a phonetic sign, recording sound within a word. Old Persian cuneiform also used signs for whole words such as “king” and “god”; 𐎼 records only a spoken part.
Darius's Behistun inscription gives the same royal account in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian. Comparing the three versions later helped scholars decipher the script. It fell out of use after the Achaemenid empire ended. Its wedge forms resemble neighboring cuneiform writing, but this script was devised for Persian royal use.
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Who writes 𐎼
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𐎼 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 𐎼
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- Old Persian cuneiform · Old Persian ra sound · Old Persian r sign · Achaemenid cuneiform · ra cuneiform sign
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐎼\103BCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.