What 𑇉 means
It marks a sound change across a word boundary. External sandhi is how neighboring words change when read together; Sharada places 𑇉 below the following syllable to mark the join.
Anshuman Pandey’s 2012 proposal shows 𑇉 in a Sharada manuscript. Unicode minutes record acceptance in 2013; these dates track documentation and encoding, not origin.
Sharada avagraha 𑇁 marks an omitted word-initial a; 𑇉 marks external sandhi. Unicode also lists a Bengali sandhi mark as related, but it belongs to another script and is not interchangeable with 𑇉.
A manuscript and grammar mark; by itself, it needs the surrounding text.
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Who writes 𑇉
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Don't confuse it with
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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 𑇉
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- sandhi mark · external sandhi · Sharada sandhi · avagraha · Sanskrit sandhi
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𑇉\111C9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.