What ⁅ means
It marks specialist dictionary or editorial notation.
Swedish bilingual dictionaries call ⁅ and ⁆ “spike parentheses” (piggparenteser); they enclose phrase material that completes a headword.
Editors of Old Norse, a medieval Scandinavian language, use ⸠ and ⸡ to mark a copyist’s actions: one order marks an accidental repeat, the reverse an erasure.
It reads as specialist notation rather than ordinary punctuation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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More like this
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How to type or find ⁅
- Also called
- piggparenteser
- Search it as
- quill bracket · spike parentheses · Old Norse bracket
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⁅CSS
\2045Windows
Alt-plus: hold Alt, type 2045, then release Alt.
Linux
CtrlShiftU, type 2045, then press Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⁅
HTML hex
⁅
CSS content
content: "\2045";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%81%85
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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.