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tibetan mark shad

Tibetan shad

། is the Tibetan shad, also called shay: the punctuation mark that ends an expression or section of Tibetan text. People call it the Tibetan full stop, but it does not line up with an English period in every sentence. Two shads together mark a bigger break.

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What ། means

It marks the end of a Tibetan expression or section. A single shad closes a smaller unit; paired shads can close a topic, verse, or larger section. When translating, choose punctuation from the meaning rather than replacing every shad with a period.

The shad belongs to the Indic danda tradition — the vertical punctuation stroke of Indian scripts used for Sanskrit. Related shad marks appear in Tibetan imperial inscriptions from the eighth century, and the practice continued through manuscripts and print. Paired shads carry on the Sanskrit double-danda habit of marking larger boundaries.

Why does shad spacing matter?

Spacing distinguishes different punctuation patterns. In traditional Tibetan books, a close pair and a shad-space-shad pattern are not interchangeable. Keep that gap when transcribing, and keep a spaced pair on one line when text wraps.

Read it as Tibetan punctuation, not as an ornamental emoji.

A single shad is not automatically an English full stop.

Drift: As of 2024, Tibetan magazine publishing in China may omit double-shad delimiters, while Bhutanese newspapers show both paragraph-style and double-shad practice.

Part of the collection

ཀ

Tibetan Alphabet & Letters

Don't confuse it with

་

Tibetan Mark Intersyllabic Tsheg

Shad versus tsheg: the tsheg is a small dot that separates Tibetan syllables; the shad is a vertical stroke that closes an expression or section.

༎

Tibetan Mark Nyis Shad

Nyis shad is one close-double character, not two separately typed shads. Two single shads can form a wider, spaced pair.

Questions people ask

Why can the shad disappear after ཀ or ག?

It is deliberate. In traditional Tibetan typesetting, the final vertical stroke of ཀ (ka) or ག (ga) can stand in for the following shad. A subscript — a letter written beneath the base letter — changes that rule.

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How to type or find །

Also called: shad · shay · single shad
Search it as: Tibetan full stop · Tibetan period
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 0F0D, then AltX to get །.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tibetan mark shad”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 0f0d, then Enter or Space.

HTML

།

CSS

\0F0D

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

།

HTML hex

།

CSS content

content: "\0F0D";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E0%BC%8D

On screen

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A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Himalayan & Central Asian653 symbols

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