What ⹖ means
It closes a pair around an optional omission. ⹕ opens the pair; ⹖ closes it. The enclosed material may be omitted in some Japanese transliterations. ⹗…⹘ marks required omission.
Specialist phonetic or transliteration notation, not everyday punctuation.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
1A 2004 Japanese grammar example allows one or two k's in this Latin-letter rendering.
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
- U+2E56 · 2E56 · optional omission · Japanese transliteration · phonetic punctuation · sore⹕k⹖kiri
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⹖CSS
\2E56How to type ⹖
Use a Unicode-aware picker or input method. Adding a stroke to ] does not make ⹖; display depends on font coverage.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⹖
HTML hex
⹖
CSS content
content: "\2E56";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B9%96
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.