What ⏙ means
It marks a five-beat unit in Greek meter.
Greek meter patterns long and short syllables; scansion means marking that pattern. This pentaseme is a specialist notation sign for studying and printing poetry.
Ancient Greek meter developed between the eighth and fourth centuries BC; records survive on papyri (sheets made from papyrus) and in codices (ancient handwritten books). A scholarly edition of Greek music writings from 1975 includes this sign.
Specialist notation for readers familiar with Greek poetic meter.
Without that context, its five-beat reading may be unclear.
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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 ⏙
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- pentaseme meaning · Greek meter symbol · five-beat unit · scansion
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⏙\23D9Codes and encoding1 code points
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