What ⸤ means
It opens a lower pair in some inscription editions. ⸤ begins text missing from the stone but supplied from an earlier copy; ⸥ closes it.
Martin West’s 1973 guide to Greek and Latin editing describes text lost from one copy but recovered from another. Michelle Brown’s 1993 guide to historical scripts records the lower pair. Modern renderings of Babylonian tablets use it too; editions of cuneiform (wedge-shaped clay-tablet writing) may use ⸢⸣ for partly legible signs.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⸤ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ⸤
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How to type or find ⸤
- Search it as
- half bracket
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⸤CSS
\2E24How to type ⸤
Use an editor’s symbol search. As of 2026, Toolster’s Papyrology Keyboard inserts both halves and leaves the cursor inside.
Missing glyph
A box in place of the mark means the font lacks this glyph.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⸤
HTML hex
⸤
CSS content
content: "\2E24";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B8%A4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.