What ݅ means
It marks an extra Turoyo letter beyond the standard Syriac alphabet. Turoyo, also called Surayt, is a language written in Syriac script. In text order, this combining mark follows its letter; Syriac shaping places the dots above it.
The exact form appears in a Turoyo–Syriac dictionary from 1985; that is an example, not proof of when the mark first appeared. Syriac dotting is much older: a manuscript from 411 CE uses dots to distinguish words written alike, and by the 7th century dots also marked vowels systematically. Eastern and Western Syriac traditions developed different dot conventions, so a dot's role can depend on the tradition.
Do all Turoyo spellings use this mark?
No; spelling traditions differ on whether it appears.
Guides describing the 2017 Turoyo standardisation omit this mark and its below-dot companion. Follow the spelling tradition used by the text rather than adding the mark by analogy.
A specialist Turoyo spelling mark; its position identifies a letter, not punctuation or emphasis.
Do not use it as an ellipsis: its dots mark spelling, not a pause.
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Questions people ask
1Why does the mark appear as a dotted circle or box?
It has no base letter to attach to. Syriac shaping may place an unattached mark on a dotted circle; if the font lacks that fallback glyph, it can show a missing-glyph box.
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݅\0745Codes and encoding1 code points
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