What ꣏ means
It marks the end of a larger poetic unit.
The Saurashtra script is used to write the Saurashtra language. Its modern form developed in the 1880s. Saurashtra-script books are documented from 1905 and 1906; those dates describe the script's printed history, not the origin of ꣏.
In traditional prose, the single danda ꣎ is the usual delimiter. Poetry uses both Saurashtra forms, with ꣏ closing the larger unit. Modern Saurashtra text also uses Western-style punctuation.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings꣏ closes a larger poetic unit.
Don't confuse it with
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Two ASCII vertical bars are separate characters; ꣏ is one Saurashtra punctuation character.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꣏ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Saurashtra 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 ꣏
- Search it as
- danda · daṇḍa · double danda · Indian-script punctuation · poetry punctuation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꣏\A8CFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.