What ࠱ means
It marks a pause or interruption in reading.
The 2008 Samaritan-script proposal says Afsaaq and Nequdaa first separated sentences; later they also marked smaller breaks inside them.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2
Related characters
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Combination ideas
2Documented sequence: Afsaaq followed by Nequdaa.
Documented reverse sequence: Nequdaa followed by Afsaaq.
Questions people ask
1Why can Afsaaq look different in fonts?
It can. The 2008 proposal's chart uses a normalized 19th-century style; Samaritan manuscript forms can look different.
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How to type or find ࠱
- Also called
- afsaq
- Search it as
- afsaaq · Samaritan punctuation · Samaritan pause mark · Samaritan interruption mark · Nequdaa
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
࠱CSS
\0831Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
࠱
HTML hex
࠱
CSS content
content: "\0831";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%A0%B1
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.