What ⸳ means
It marks a middle-strength break.
Greek punctuation used three dot heights to mark different breaks; this middle-height dot signaled an ordinary pause, like a comma. The system is traditionally credited to Aristophanes of Byzantium, a scholar in Alexandria, around 260 BCE.
Papyrus manuscripts of the Greek poet Bacchylides, mostly from the 2nd century CE, use the dot for pauses; without spaces between words, it can also hint at word endings. They reflect scholarship reaching back to the 2nd century BCE, perhaps earlier. Coptic punctuation also used three heights: the middle-height dot could separate matching phrases or come before speech quoted directly or reported indirectly.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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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 ⸳
- Search it as
- Greek punctuation · Coptic punctuation · middle dot · Greek ano teleia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.