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⁙

five dot punctuation

Five Dot Punctuation

⁙ is an old punctuation mark that could separate words in some Ancient Greek writing. The same five-dot pattern connects it with the pentonkion coin and the name quincunx. Outside historical or specialist text, its job needs to be defined by the writer.

Text symbol
Also called
Greek pentonkion · quincunx
Search it as
pentonkion · quincunx symbol · five dot mark · Greek word divider
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⁙ means

It could mark word breaks in some Ancient Greek writing. Some Greek texts ran words together without spaces, and dot marks helped show their boundaries. This five-dot sign belongs to that older punctuation tradition.

The same design served as the mark for a pentonkion, a Greek-Sicilian coin worth five onkiai, small units in the region’s bronze currency. “Quincunx” is another name for the five-point layout.

Historical and specialist; unexpected in ordinary messages.

Read it as a die face only when the surrounding text is about dice.

Don't confuse it with

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⚄
Die Face-5
⚄ explicitly shows a die face with five; ⁙ is historical punctuation. As of 2026-10-08, font lists show support in some typefaces; one lacking the mark may display a missing-glyph box.
⁘
Four Dot Punctuation
⁘ has four dots to ⁙’s five. Both are older dot punctuation marks, but they are separate characters with different names.

Questions people ask

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Why 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 2059, 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 “five dot punctuation”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2059, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⁙
CSS
\2059
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⁙
HTML hex
⁙
CSS content
content: "\2059";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%81%99
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.

Families this belongs to

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Typography & punctuation332 symbols

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