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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:27, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

I see you created ⍼. I appreciate you taking the initiative, but note that we don't have entries on every Unicode character on purpose: they need to meet the Criteria for inclusion. Now, that page does not have an explicit section on emojis and various Unicode characters, so there have been a number of deletion discussions about individual characters like this. I would recommend that if you want to have it persist that you show usage of the character and try to figure out what it means. Otherwise, I imagine that it would fail at Wiktionary:Votes for deletion. All that said, I personally am in favor of having such entries, but I know for a fact that is not a universal sentiment. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:27, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! This is very helpful. It is an interesting item to me -- the contradiction of being defined as meaningless. I'll add some items to the citations page. Wshallwshall (talk) 16:01, 29 February 2024 (UTC)