What ⸎ means
It marks a major text boundary. In Greek manuscripts written on papyrus, an ancient plant-based writing material, it sits in the margin at a poem’s or prose section’s end. The related Greek boundary mark paragraphos ⸏ may accompany it.
A fourth-century BCE papyrus preserves an early variable form; a standard design emerged in the first century BCE. In books from Egypt’s Nag Hammadi collection, coronides mark paragraphs and sometimes highlight passages inside a story.
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 ⸎
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E0E, then Alt+X to get ⸎.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “editorial coronis”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e0e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⸎CSS
\2E0EHow to type the coronis
In an editor with Unicode hex entry, enter 2E0E; the shortcut depends on the app and operating system.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⸎
HTML hex
⸎
CSS content
content: "\2E0E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B8%8E
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On screen
1
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.