Philippine Single Punctuation

It marks a short pause between phrases. Hanunó'o uses it to separate phrases; its paired mark ᜶ signals a longer or sentence-like pause and may close a poem.

These four scripts share features with scripts descended from Brahmi, an old South Asian writing system. Their route to the Philippines is uncertain: they may have traveled by way of Kawi, a historical Southeast Asian script, between the 10th–14th centuries. Those dates describe a possible route for the scripts, not a known origin date for ᜵.