What ፣ means
It marks a small break inside Ethiopic text.
The Ge'ez script, first seen in second- or third-century CE inscriptions, later built a full punctuation set around an old word-spacing bar; the sources checked do not date ፣ itself.
Use ፣ between names, phrases or numbers. Your document chooses between ፣ and its variant ፥, while ፡ is the older wordspace.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsList or phrase break.
Don't confuse it with
3
Questions 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.
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Collections with ፣
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How to type or find ፣
- Also called
- ነጠላ ሠረዝ
- Search it as
- amharic · tigrinya · geez · separator · semicolon
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
፣CSS
\1363GFF layout
Press a punctuation key twice or more until ፣ appears.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
፣
HTML hex
፣
CSS content
content: "\1363";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%8D%A3
1
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.