What ⸔ means
It points from a gap in the text to words added in a margin.
Ancient Greek scribes used ancora marks in papyrus manuscripts—texts written on papyrus sheets—to flag omitted words and point to their restoration in a margin. A papyrus copy of Genesis dated 4 CE preserves an example with the missing words added in the top margin. Other examples include a fragment by the Greek playwright Menander and a papyrus of Sophocles from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. An ancora could also mark a variant reading (a different version of the text) or an error; manuscript drawings show diagonal or upright strokes.
A specialist editorial mark used in Greek manuscript transcription.
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 ⸔
⸔\2E14Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.