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⸟

tilde with dot below

Tilde with Dot Below

German dictionaries use ⸟ to repeat an entry stem in a lowercase derived form. With headword <code>Buchmacher</code>, <code>⸟mäßig</code> expands to <code>buchmachermäßig</code>; a 1974 German dictionary shows the convention. A Greek and Syriac textual sign associated with Origen and his successors can share this outline.

Text symbol

Search it as: hypolemnisc · obelus · dotted obelos · German dictionary mark
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⸟ means

Repeat the headword stem; write the resulting word in lowercase. With Buchmacher as the headword, ⸟mäßig expands to buchmachermäßig (“bookmaker-like”).

A specialist dictionary mark, not general-purpose prose punctuation.

Don't confuse it with

~̣

A tilde plus dot below (`~̣`) is a two-character sequence; ⸟ is one punctuation character.

Questions people ask

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 2E1F, 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 “tilde with dot below”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e1f, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⸟

CSS

\2E1F

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⸟

HTML hex

⸟

CSS content

content: "\2E1F";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%B8%9F

On screen

Code points

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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.

Families this belongs to

Typography & punctuation332 symbols

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