What ݆ means
In Turoyo, ݆ adds a consonant for a sound Classical Syriac lacks. This three-dots-below Syriac diacritic follows its consonant base; it marks a letter, not punctuation.
The 1998 Unicode proposal pairs ݆ with the three-dots-above mark ݅ and describes both as Turoyo signs for letters not found in Syriac. It cites Mhadyono, a Syriac–Turoyo dictionary published in 1985.
The 2017 orthography guidance for Surayt lists other extension marks but does not mention ݆ or its above counterpart. That makes ݆ a documented Turoyo option, not a default spelling rule across Syriac writing.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ݆ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Syriac 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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- Turoyo mark · Turoyo orthography · Surayt · Syriac diacritic · three dots below
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
݆\0746Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.