What ⁜ means
A scribe’s margin nudge: notice this passage.
In ancient and medieval Greek manuscripts, ⁜ and the related four-dot mark ⁛ could flag points of interest or a hymn’s final stanza. An example appears in Doctrina Patrum, a Christian theological text.
A sixth-century Syriac manuscript study records similar marks at section endings. Syriac is a historical language with its own script; the parallel does not prove those marks were ⁜.
Scholarly and archival.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3A decorative break between sections of text.
A heading framed with manuscript-style cross ornaments.
A floral and dotted-cross divider for captions.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⁜ show as a box?
The font or app may lack this glyph and show a fallback box. The text can still contain ⁜.
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Collections with ⁜
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How to type or find ⁜
- Also called
- cross, dotted
- Search it as
- manuscript mark · four-dot mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⁜
HTML hex
⁜
CSS content
content: "\205C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%81%9C
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.