What ⹛ means
Enter U2E5B through Unicode input or a character picker.
Search the character's name in a character picker, or enter U2E5B in an editor that supports Unicode input. This is text punctuation, so an emoji keyboard will not supply it. A font without the glyph may show a missing-character box.
What does ⹛ mean?
It starts a pair that marks uncertain sounds or segments.
⹛ pairs with ⹜, its matching right half. In extended IPA, a system for writing speech sounds, the pair can enclose a doubtful phoneme—a speech sound whose status is uncertain. In historical reconstruction, linguists infer older forms from related words and use the pair around a segment whose presence is uncertain. The documented examples reach back to Alexander J. Ellis's work in 1889; the pair also appears in Aharon Dolgopolsky's work in 1987.
Specialist punctuation used in phonetic transcription and historical reconstruction.
Use its matching right half: ⹛ alone can look like a broken parenthesis.
Part of collections
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsThe speech sound's status is uncertain; it may not be present.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Why does ⹛ render as a box
It can: a font without this glyph may show a missing-character box because ⹛ is text punctuation.
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How to type or find ⹛
- Search it as
- extended IPA parentheses · doubtful sound mark · uncertain phoneme · reconstructed segment · historical phonetics · U+2E5B
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⹛\2E5BCodes and encoding1 code points
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