What 𞋦 means
It marks Wancho’s nasalized o vowel, /õ/.
The nasal quality is part of this single vowel.
How do tone marks affect Wancho On?
A separate mark adds the tone to this vowel.
Northern and Southern Wancho use different tone-mark pairs; the mark changes pitch, while 𞋦 remains /õ/.
Why was the Wancho script developed?
To write sounds Latin letters could not capture.
Banwang Losu developed it from 2001 to 2012 because Latin letters could not capture all Wancho sounds.
He wanted to write Wancho and preserve its oral culture. School teaching began in select areas in 2016.
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Who writes 𞋦
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𞋦 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𞋦
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- wancho script · wancho on · nasalized o · wancho tone marks
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𞋦\1E2E6Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.