What 𑩃 means
It marks the end of a text section. The Zanabazar Square double shad is the larger boundary mark; its smaller partner marks the end of a phrase or sentence.
Zanabazar Square was created in Mongolia in the late 17th century for Buddhist writing in Mongolian, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. The script appears in manuscripts, blockprints (pages printed from carved blocks), and calligraphy records.
Formal and specialist: it belongs to historical Zanabazar Square text.
Outside Zanabazar Square writing, readers may not know what boundary it marks.
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Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 𑩃 render as a box?
The app's font may lack Zanabazar Square support. Another font can draw the mark differently.
How to type or find 𑩃
- Also called
- double shad
- Search it as
- shad · nyis shad · Tibetan double shad · double danda · Zanabazar Square punctuation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𑩃\11A43Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.





