What ࠴ means
It marks the preceding expression as unexpected. It guides delivery, not sentence endings.
An Ashqelon Samaritan manuscript dated 1189 gives context for the wider punctuation tradition, not Atmaau's beginning; manuscripts differ in their recorded marks.
Nequdaa and Afsaaq, other Samaritan marks, shifted from sentence breaks toward smaller pauses, like Hebrew sof pasuq, a verse-ending mark. Qitsa appears with Atmaau in a documented section pairing; manuscript conventions vary.
A specialist punctuation mark; typeface design can change its shape without changing its Samaritan role.
Is Atmaau an exclamation point? No: it marks unexpected delivery in Samaritan writing, not generic emphasis.
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1Why does ࠴ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Samaritan block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ࠴
- Also called
- atmau
- Search it as
- atmaau · Samaritan punctuation · Samaritan surprise mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
࠴\0834Codes and encoding1 code points
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