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stenographic full stop

Stenographic Full Stop

⸼ is the shorthand period: it ends a sentence where dots may stand for letters or words. It suits stenographic notes; plain prose usually uses the ordinary period.

Text symbol
Also called
stenographic period
Search it as
steno · shorthand period · Duployan period
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⸼ means

It marks the end of a shorthand sentence.

Steno, or shorthand, uses compact marks to write speech quickly. This stop marks a sentence boundary where a dot may already stand for a letter or word.

Greek shorthand is attested by the 4th century BCE. Pitman’s system spread in the 1830s; Émile Duployé published Duployan in 1860, a system adapted across languages. In Duployan, the mark replaces an ordinary period; one Pitman proposal uses it to show how a shorthand form should appear, while keeping a separate sentence stop.

Specialist shorthand punctuation.

A decorative use can make ordinary writing look like shorthand.

Don't confuse it with

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Full Stop
A plain dot ends ordinary prose; ⸼ is the shorthand stop.

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type ⸼

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E3C, then Alt+X to get ⸼.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “stenographic full stop”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e3c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⸼
CSS
\2E3C
How do I type ⸼?
Use a Unicode picker or character map; app support varies.
HTML
In HTML, use ⸼.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⸼
HTML hex
⸼
CSS content
content: "\2E3C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B8%BC
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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.

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