Zanabazar Square Final Consonant Mark

It closes a Mongolian syllable on its final consonant.

Zanabazar Square normally gives a consonant an unwritten “a” vowel after it; 𑨳 cancels that vowel and shows the syllable ending there.

Zanabazar Square was developed in Mongolia around 1686 for Mongolian writing and Buddhist texts in Tibetan and Sanskrit. It draws on Tibetan script and the older Brahmi model, a South Asian writing system. A surviving biography in Zanabazar Square shows the script in use. It was rediscovered in 1801. As of 2026, surviving evidence does not establish how widely it circulated.

Is 𑨳 the Zanabazar Square virama?

They have different jobs in different language spellings. In Mongolian, 𑨳 closes a syllable on its final consonant. The separate mark 𑨴 is the virama, a sign that cancels a consonant’s unwritten vowel. Sanskrit and Tibetan use it for a bare consonant; it does not mark a syllable boundary.

One Tibetan prayer manuscript places 𑨳 after vowel signs and joined consonant groups, apparently as a syllable separator below the main letter. This is a nonstandard scribal variation, not the ordinary Tibetan use of the virama.

How do I type 𑨳 without breaking the syllable?

Type the base consonant first, then 𑨳. This is a combining mark: it attaches to the preceding consonant, which gives it a visible host.

On its own, it may look blank or show a dotted circle, depending on the font and text renderer. If it disappears after a consonant, the font may not support Zanabazar Square.