What ﹔ means
The mark is small; its character cell stays a full character wide.
It was encoded so older text systems could exchange the small mark while keeping a full-width character cell. A documented standard trail for the form runs through Taiwan's CNS 11643 character-encoding standard in 1986.
This remains semicolon punctuation. Use the small form when its reduced mark matters to the text's layout; it does not signal another tone.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Semicolon
Unicode's compatibility mapping for this small form resolves to the ordinary semicolon.
Fullwidth Semicolon
The fullwidth semicolon is its wider relative: it uses the regular semicolon form, while ﹔ keeps the mark small inside a full-width cell.
Presentation Form For Vertical Semicolon
The vertical-presentation semicolon is its layout relative for vertical text; ﹔ is the small-form mark.
Combination ideas
3Winking face built from a small semicolon.
Work by day; rest at night.
Coffee; then a book: a calm plan.
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
- ﹔ · ﹔ meaning · CJK semicolon · small-form semicolon · FE54
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
﹔
HTML hex
﹔
CSS content
content: "\FE54";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%B9%94
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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.