What 𐽆 means
It marks a Sogdian letter for disambiguation or transcription.
The history of Sogdian writing includes Kultobe inscriptions tentatively dated to the 1st–2nd centuries CE and the Sogdian Ancient Letters from the early 4th century. Old Sogdian spans the 3rd–6th centuries; later Sogdian texts date from the 7th–14th centuries. Sogdian appears in formal and cursive styles, in Buddhist, Manichaean, Christian, and secular texts, alongside Chinese, Sanskrit, and Uyghur writing. Cursive Sogdian developed into Old Uyghur, which gave rise to Mongolian scripts.
Philological and typographic use in Sogdian text work.
Read it with its Sogdian base letter.
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Who writes 𐽆
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Don't confuse it with
1Generic underdot: similar shape, but a separate mark without this Sogdian role.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𐽆 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Sogdian 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 𐽆
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- Sogdian · underdot · diacritic · transcription
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐽆\10F46Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.