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right dotted substitution bracket

Right Dotted Substitution Bracket

In New Testament manuscript notes, ⸅ marks the end of a second, multiword wording variant in a verse. This dotted right bracket belongs to a specialist system for comparing manuscript readings.

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What ⸅ means

It closes the dotted span for a second wording. In this New Testament notation, ⸄ opens the span and ⸅ closes it. The dotted pair marks another multiword wording in the same verse, after the solid ⸂…⸃ pair; ⸀ and ⸁ cover the corresponding single-word case.

Nestle, a New Testament editor, introduced these marks to show differences between manuscript readings; scholarly publications later used them. An apparatus criticus is the set of editorial notes that records those differences and explains the alternative wordings.

Specialist editorial punctuation for recording alternative readings in New Testament manuscripts.

Don't confuse it with

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⸃
Right Substitution Bracket
The solid right bracket closes ⸂…⸃; ⸅ instead closes the dotted repeat pair ⸄…⸅.
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Right Parenthesis
A general closing parenthesis for ordinary parenthetical text, not a mark for a manuscript variant.

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Why 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 ⸅

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E05, 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 “right dotted substitution bracket”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e05, then Enter or Space.
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