What ⸝ means
It closes a marked paraphrase or editorial insertion.
N’Ko is an alphabet devised by Solomana Kanté in 1949 so Manding languages, spoken across West Africa, could be written by their speakers. The pair marks an indirect citation in N’Ko: words retold rather than quoted exactly. It can also enclose an editor’s addition that was absent from the source. N’Ko also uses angular quotation marks, called guillemets, and ornate quotation parentheses derived from Arabic forms. In 2004, a revision to the Unicode proposal moved provisional entries U07FA/U07FB to U2E1C/U2E1D.
Specialist N’Ko and editorial punctuation; use it as part of a pair.
Alone, ⸝ gives no opening boundary; use the pair.
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1Questions 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
- N’Ko right paraphrase mark · paraphrase mark
- Search it as
- N’Ko · paraphrase · indirect citation · quotation brackets · editorial insertion
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⸝\2E1DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.