What 〯 means
It marks a syllable's rising pitch.
Bangjeom used no dot for low pitch, one for high, and two for rising.
The earliest surviving example is in the 1446 Hunminjeongeum manuscript, an early guide to Hangul, the Korean alphabet. 〮 is its paired one-dot mark.
A historical tone mark for Middle Korean writing.
Drift: Side-dot use weakens in late-15th-century texts, becomes inconsistent during the 16th century, and is no longer regular by the 17th century.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 〯 sit beside a syllable?
It marks the whole syllable. Unicode shaping guidance places it on the syllable's left in horizontal and vertical text; fonts can vary the spacing.
How to type 〯
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 302F, 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 “hangul double dot tone mark”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 302f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
〯CSS
\302FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
〯
HTML hex
〯
CSS content
content: "\302F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%80%AF
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.