What 𐽖 means
It marks a boundary between segments of Sogdian text.
As of 2026, Unicode groups it with three other segment marks but gives this one no fixed modern equivalent such as a comma, full stop, or colon.
The oldest surviving Sogdian manuscripts, the Ancient Letters, are tentatively dated to 312–313 CE. They use Old Sogdian; as of 2026, no script-specific punctuation is attested in the surviving texts. Later Sogdian writing (seventh to fourteenth centuries) has five marks. Christian Sogdian texts using East Syriac, a form of the Syriac script, follow Syriac punctuation: two dots mark a pause, four circles a full stop. Sogdian script descends from Imperial Aramaic, used across the Persian Empire, and influenced Old Uyghur and Mongolian writing.
Historical and specialist; for Sogdian texts or script study.
It is not an ordinary colon.
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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 𐽖
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- Sogdian punctuation · text separator · 𐽖
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𐽖\10F56Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.