Flower Punctuation Mark

⁕ is a Syloti Nagri poetry mark and a Newa section mark, usually placed between two double dandas (𑑌). Its former Unicode name promised eight points, though the glyph is not always eight-pointed.

Text symbol

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What ⁕ means

It marks poetry in Syloti Nagri and section endings in Newa.

Syloti Nagri writes Sylheti; Newa writes Nepal Bhasa. In Newa, the paired upright marks 𑑌 usually flank ⁕ at a section’s end.

Unicode, the standard that gives digital identities to characters, reviewed it in 2003: “Syloti Nagri Sign Ful” became “Eight-Pointed Asterisk,” then “Flower Punctuation Mark,” since the glyph is not always eight-pointed. Separate European fleurons—flower-shaped printer’s ornaments—were used by the early sixteenth century for headings, book divisions, and head- or tailpieces; that parallel tradition does not establish ⁕’s origin.