Duployan Letter Sloan an

Duployan Letter Sloan an at U+1BC68 is a shorthand letter used to write the Sloan adaptation of Duployan, representing an “an” sound or sign value in that stenographic system. It belongs to the Duployan block, which encodes characters from Duployé-family shorthand traditions rather than ordinary alphabetic spelling. In real use, this character is mainly found in encoded shorthand texts, teaching materials, and archival transcriptions connected with Sloan-Duployan shorthand. A writer or transcriber uses 𛱨 where the Sloan system calls for its dedicated “an” sign, preserving the compact phonetic notation of the original shorthand instead of expanding it into Latin letters. It also matters in library, historical, and linguistic work on shorthand manuals, notebooks, and printed specimens, where exact character identity helps distinguish one Duployan sign from another. Because Duployan is a specialist script, this character is uncommon in everyday text and may require fonts that specifically cover the Duployan block.