Pronunciation and meaning of 

Question

I just received an email ending like this:

是非是非また誘って

How to read the  ?
Zero results on Google.

As for the meaning, is it equivalent to よ ?

you mean ~ <- this? I'm not sure what you are talking about, but if that's it, then it's like friendly please. よ is more less friendly but still friendly. — Hikari Iwasaki, Jun 25 '11 at 00:18

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 24 '11 at 06:45

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It's mojibake, not a valid character. Looking at the character code I suppose it's this emoji sent from a mobile phone:

emoji

http://code.iamcal.com/php/emoji/

answered Jun 24 '11 at 06:45

deceze

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oh crap, that php library is awesome. Thanks for the link. – Jeshizaemon Jun 24 '11 at 16:11

Nayuki · Answer 2 · 2011-08-18T16:34:18.260

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The character you presented is U+E4FB. According to the Unicode standard, it is in the "private use area", which means a software or hardware vendor can define what the character means on their own system. Such a character has no universally accepted meaning.

Reference: Wikipedia - Mapping of Unicode characters - Private use characters

"The Basic Multilingual Plane includes a PUA in the range from U+E000 to U+F8FF (6,400)."

edited Aug 18 '11 at 16:34

answered Aug 18 '11 at 14:42

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How are you guys reading the code points? – Louis Waweru Aug 18 '11 at 21:57
@Louis: http://i.imgur.com/HkcMA.png – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Aug 19 '11 at 03:59
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@Ignacio, ohh, they are empty boxes on my version of Chrome. – Louis Waweru Aug 19 '11 at 04:20
If you're a programmer, you can use JavaScript to figure out the code point, i.e. by typing this into the address bar: `javascript: "X".charCodeAt(0).toString(16)` – Nayuki Aug 19 '11 at 04:37

Pronunciation and meaning of 

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