What ⸥ means
⸥ closes the right side of an editor’s half bracket. In editions of ancient papyrus documents, the lower pair ⸤ … ⸥ surrounds words supplied by comparing another surviving copy or source. In cuneiform, a wedge-shaped writing system, bracket pairs can mark a sign that is broken but still partly legible. The same family serves different editorial systems, so the edition’s guide explains which reading applies.
The Leiden system, a shared set of editorial marks, was agreed in 1931 to distinguish what survives on a document from what an editor supplies or corrects; earlier editions used similar but differing rules. Unicode encoded this four-corner group in 2008, after these editorial practices already existed. Some editions use square-corner marks called quine corners instead.
Specialist punctuation for edited texts; it tells readers that an editor has marked the text.
Do not read ⸥ as universal punctuation; the edition’s own guide decides what its bracket marks.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2Questions 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.
How to type ⸥
⸥\2E25Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.