Sunuwar Sign Pvo

It is a Sunuwar sign for auspicious greetings and blessings. Its transliteration is pvo, representing a voiceless implosive made by closing both lips while drawing air inward. Related languages in the western Kiranti group also have implosive sounds.

The modern Sunuwar script was developed in 1942 by Krishna Bahadur Jentich to write Sunuwar; its original core had 22 letters and digits. Its structure was modeled on Latin, but it is not descended from another writing system.

Community additions later expanded the repertoire, including this sign. A 2021 Unicode proposal shows a variant in a Jentich letter before the sender's and recipient's names. This placement ties it to a formal good-wish greeting; the trident-like design does not establish a borrowed origin.

Why is 𑯡 repeated or placed before a name?

It cues a formulaic good wish or blessing. A 2021 Unicode proposal records pvo often repeated in speech before a set phrase. In writing, the sign appears in salutations and benedictory phrases, before names in a letter header, and at the end of an alphabet list.

The proposal describes simple-to-ornate trident-based forms. It says Sunuwar has no formal standard and that the Sunuwar Welfare Society promotes a de facto repertoire. It also documents the sign's auspicious use in Nepal and Sikkim.