Stand-alone Characters
Stand-alone characters are not part of the main 33 alphabet (or character) system, but many of those are commonly used in standard official level documents, newspapers, and in literature.
The following stand-alone characters cannot be combined with others and they are commonly used in the literary form.
Letter | Romanization with Audio | Meaning |
---|---|---|
၍ | Yway1 <<MP3 AUDIO>> | therefore; conjunction between verbs |
၏ | E1 <<MP3 AUDIO>> | ending word "to be" |
ဤ | E2 <<MP3 AUDIO>> | this |
၌ | Hnite <<MP3 AUDIO>> | at |
၎င်း | La1-goun3 <<MP3 AUDIO>> | above-mentioned |
၎င်း | La1-goun3 meaning that or above-mentioned has the character that looks like number 4 or ၄ | lay3 in Burmese followed by Nga1 thut and shay1 ga1 pout | င်း. Some font makers have considered this word as a single word, so it is faster to type it.