What ⹘ means
It closes the bracket for obligatory ellipsis.
In this Japanese transcription convention, ⹗ opens the omitted span and ⹘ closes it. The single-stroke pair ⹕…⹖ marks optional ellipsis.
Samuel E. Martin’s 2004 grammar of Japanese documents the convention.
Specialist punctuation with a precise role.
Double stroke: obligatory omission; single stroke: optional.
Questions people ask
1Can I use ⹘ in ordinary writing?
No. It has a specialist transcription role; ordinary text uses ordinary brackets.
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How to type or find ⹘
- Search it as
- ⹘ · double stroke bracket · ellipsis bracket · Unicode escape
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⹘CSS
\2E58HTML
Write
⹘.JavaScript or JSON
Use the Unicode escape
\u2E58.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⹘
HTML hex
⹘
CSS content
content: "\2E58";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B9%98
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.