What ᾽ means
It marks crasis: two neighboring Greek words join.
With crasis, a word-final vowel contracts with the next word’s first. This is grammatical marking, not ordinary apostrophe punctuation.
The standalone form suits teaching and keyboards; running text uses a combining form.
Is ᾽ the same as the editorial coronis?
No. ᾽ joins words; ⸎ marks text boundaries.
It is a marginal papyrus sign for stanza, paragraph, or section endings.
A bird-shaped ⸎ closes a Timotheus poem’s seal-like sphragis in a 4th-century BCE papyrus; surviving forms evolved.
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Don't confuse it with
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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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How to type or find ᾽
- Also called
- koronis · coronis
- Search it as
- u1fbd · crasis
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᾽\1FBDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.