What ༈ means
It marks a boundary around a larger unit of Tibetan text. Sbrul shad can begin a smaller text or prayer, divide chapters, or appear at both ends of an insertion in a pecha, a traditional Tibetan book.
Unicode 16.0 says Tibetan grammars, books describing the language’s rules, did not define this mark; its role comes from Tibetan textual tradition.
Why does ༈ need special spacing?
Keep the mark and its spaces together on the same line. Tibetan text layout uses nonbreaking spaces, which do not allow a line break, on both sides; a line should not begin with sbrul shad.
Formal punctuation for organizing Tibetan text; it signals textual structure rather than a speaker’s emotion.
In EWTS, ! is an input stand-in, not the mark’s reading.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA smaller text or prayer starts here.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Does ! mean the same thing as ༈?
No. In Extended Wylie transliteration (EWTS), ! is typed as an input stand-in for sbrul shad; it is not the mark’s visible form.
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How to type or find ༈
- Also called
- sbrul shad · drul-shay · drul shay
- Search it as
- sbrul · drul · shad · separator · chapter · insertion · pecha · prayer
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
༈\0F08! as the stand-in, then convert the text to Unicode.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.