What ⸩ means
It closes a span marked by an editor.
In transcriptions of Latin inscriptions, ⸨ … ⸩ can mark Claudian letters (forms associated with Claudius), inverted letters, or images omitted from the record.
The convention varies by edition: in the eleventh-century Byzantine manuscript Codex Lesbiacus Leimonos 11, the pair encloses words or sentences judged doubtful.
A specialist editorial mark, not ordinary prose punctuation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1)) Two ) characters are two marks; ⸩ is one dedicated editorial character.
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 ⸩
- Also called
- double parentheses
- Search it as
- Claudian letters · epigraphic punctuation · editorial bracket
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⸩\2E29\u2E29 as a Unicode escape.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.