What ⸌ means
Its role depends on the editorial tradition.
The difference between ⸌ and ⸋ is their place in the New Testament omission convention: ⸋ opens a passage missing from some copies, and ⸌ closes it. Another convention pairs ⸌ with ⸍; either sign can open or close.
An 11th-century transcription of the Greek manuscript Venetus B records the Greek words οἱ δὲ⸌; the mark may signal a pause like a colon. Unicode accepted these New Testament editorial signs for digital encoding in 2003; that dates encoding, not the mark’s origin.
Specialist editorial mark for manuscript readings.
“Left” does not mean it always opens.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ⸌
⸌\2E0CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.