What ⳿ means
It shows where one unit gives way to the next. Many manuscripts lack regular spaces; this mark can close a prosodic unit or expose a morpheme boundary.
No one-off invention is documented. Older Coptic manuscripts use small word-final hooks for the same reading job, but the first example of this exact form remains unidentified as of 2026. Coptic writing grew from Greek writing with Demotic-derived letters; other orthographies use a middle comma at comparable boundaries.
Scholarly and manuscript-faithful; use it only when the Coptic boundary matters.
Do not substitute ·; it can mark a different boundary.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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 ⳿
⳿\2CFFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.