What ࠾ means
Annaau marks a longer pause between narrated actions. It separates sentences whose actions are farther apart in time, a stronger break than Afsaaq, the interruption mark.
Afsaaq and Nequdaa began as sentence separators, then marked smaller breaks. Qitsa instead ends a section, like the open and closed divisions in the Masoretic tradition of Hebrew scripture. Afsaaq and Nequdaa are compared with Hebrew sof pasuq, a sentence-ending mark.
Reference charts and manuscript-based fonts can show Annaau with different outlines: charts normalize one style, while fonts based on manuscripts may preserve others. The outline alone does not identify its function.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ࠾ 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 ࠾
- Search it as
- annau · annaau · samaritan punctuation · qitsa · afsaaq
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
࠾\083ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.