What ︯ means
It closes a titlo spanning several Cyrillic letters.
A left half starts a long titlo, conjoining macrons carry its bar across interior letters, and ︯ closes it. Here, right means the end of the span, not a direction for reading.
This digital half-mark represents a much older titlo tradition. The bar developed from Greek handwriting used for abbreviations. Old Slavonic texts include the 10th-century Codex Zographensis and manuscripts from the early 11th-century. Slavic writing used titlos for omitted letters, contracted sacred names, and letter numerals.
How do I read a long Church Slavonic titlo?
Read the letters under the complete overline.
Long forms use three positions: ︮ starts the bar, ︦ links its middle, and ︯ ends it. Fonts and text software need shaping rules that join marks across different letters; without them, the bar may split or shift.
Old and modern Church Slavonic conventions also differ over letters written above the line. Modern Church Slavonic uses a separate covering mark called pokrytie for them.
Specialist Church Slavonic typography; this is a piece of a writing mark, not a conversational token.
Alone, it has no span to close.
Don't confuse it with
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1Questions people ask
2Can I use the right half by itself?
No. Alone, it has no open span to close; it belongs after the final letter of a long titlo.
Why does a long titlo split into separate marks?
The font or text engine may lack shaping rules to join half marks across letters, leaving the bar split or misplaced.
How to type ︯
︯\FE2FCodes and encoding1 code points
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