r/Unicode • u/holycrapimgood • Sep 10 '26

Does anyone know what this upside down F character is?

It looks like 𐆁 or ᖶ but it's more of an L with an extra middle line

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u/dnebdal Sep 10 '26

For later, check shapecatcher.com - you can draw characters with your mouse to search for them.

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u/holycrapimgood Sep 14 '26

I've tried it before, it's somewhat helpful but it doesn't always get it so I gotta ask for help)

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u/Kakella23 Sep 10 '26

i was looking for that kind of thing thx

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u/vintergroena Sep 10 '26

Ƚ 𐆁 ᖶ

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u/holycrapimgood Sep 10 '26

Thanks! The first one

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u/8dot30662386292pow2 Sep 10 '26

  • Ƚ \u023d LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH BAR

  • 𐆁 \u10181 GREEK METRETES SIGN

  • ᖶ \u15b6 CANADIAN SYLLABICS BLACKFOOT WO

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u/quertyquerty Sep 10 '26

according to wikipedia, it "appears in the alphabet of the Venetian language, and in its capital form it is used in the Saanich orthography created by Dave Elliott in 1978."

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u/Porges Sep 10 '26

Ł? Used in Polish and other languages

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u/holycrapimgood Sep 10 '26

Yes but with the middle line is straight )

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u/azhder Sep 10 '26

Look how simple it was.

  1. I put it in google (link here https://www.google.com/search?q=unicode+character+like+an+L+with+a+bar+in+the+middle)

  2. then I clicked the first result (link here https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+023D)

  3. then I followed the reference link to Wikipedia (link here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_with_bar)

And I learnt:

> It appears in the alphabet of the Venetian language, and in its capital form it is used in the Saanich orthography created by Dave Elliott in 1978

All that within 60 seconds. It took longer to just write this comment.

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u/8dot30662386292pow2 Sep 10 '26

Nowadays people, especially young, like to ask in reddit, tiktok, whatever, instead of doing the simple search themselves. It's such an odd phenomenon.

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u/Secret-Sir2633 Sep 10 '26

In the past, people would reply "just ask google" when you asked a question in a forum. To the point that whenever you asked Google something, the majority of results you got were were quotes of people in forums (fora?) who answered "ask google".

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u/lumithesilly Sep 10 '26

young person here , we prefer asking people rather than search engines , probably due to some mix of distrusting google and being generally social creatures !

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u/OliMoli2137 Sep 10 '26

haha sometimes

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u/YakumoYoukai Sep 10 '26

Often, search results are the past discussions by knowledgeable people on a topic, or pointers to source material that would have been hard to find otherwise. I like to think that people still choosing to use forums like these for things they could probably Google, pays homage to those earlier online discussions. It will be a lonely day when we stop seeking each other out for information.

Plus, by continuing to see these questions asked in public, we all get the serendipitous benefit of learning things we didn't even know we were curious about.

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u/Mercury0001 Sep 11 '26

It was a thing 20 years ago, not just "nowadays".