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reversed comma

Reversed comma

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⹁ is the Rovas comma: a pause mark in Old Hungarian writing, and it also appears occasionally in Sindhi punctuation written in Arabic script. Rovas runs right to left, so this reversed form fits its direction; in Sindhi it marks a phrase break. The broader Rovas tradition is much older than cited examples of this exact mark.

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What ⹁ means

It marks a pause between parts of a sentence.

Rovas, the traditional script for Old Hungarian, runs right to left; some layouts alternate direction by line. ⹁ is its comma-like pause mark, so its reversed form belongs to that writing direction. This is Old Hungarian punctuation, not a general replacement for commas.

The wider Rovas tradition has stone inscriptions from the 12th century and a written mention of the Székely script from the late 13th century. Examples of this specific comma include a 1770 letter and a page in Vér’s book.

Why do Rovas and Sindhi use the same mark?

They use it for punctuation in separate traditions.

Rovas uses ⹁ with ⹂, a reversed quotation mark, in its right-to-left punctuation set. Sindhi written in Arabic script uses ⹁ occasionally as a phrase delimiter; some Sindhi texts use Arabic comma ، instead. The overlap is a similar pause function, not one shared writing system.

Read the surrounding script before guessing the tone.

Treat it as punctuation first.

When ⹁ arrives by itself, there is no surrounding sentence to show which convention it belongs to. Check for Rovas or Sindhi text; if neither fits, ask what the sender intended instead of assigning it a mood.

Specialist, script-specific punctuation. In an unrelated English chat, it looks like an unexpected mark rather than a conventional reaction.

Without Rovas or Sindhi context, don’t assign ⹁ a mood; ask what the sender intended.

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3 readings

A comma-like pause in Old Hungarian; the reversed form fits Rovas writing direction.

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Questions people ask

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Why does ⹁ look different in my font?

Fonts can draw the mark differently. Unicode’s chart glyph is illustrative rather than mandatory, and a font without support may leave a missing-character box.

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How to type or find ⹁

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backwards comma · backward comma · Old Hungarian punctuation · Rovas comma · Rovás punctuation · Székely script punctuation · Sindhi punctuation · Arabic-script punctuation
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Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2E41, then AltX 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 “reversed comma”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2e41, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⹁
CSS
\2E41
HTML source
In HTML, enter ⹁; the browser renders ⹁. A standard comma key produces ,, a different character.
Unicode hex input
In an editor that supports Unicode hex entry, enter 2E41 and run its conversion command. A comma key produces ,.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⹁
HTML hex
⹁
CSS content
content: "\2E41";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B9%81
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
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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