What ⹚ means
It closes the pair around an uncertain sound.
The role of ⹚ in phonetic notation is to close the mark; ⹙ is its left half. Together they enclose a sound whose presence is uncertain. The pair belongs to extended IPA, a system for writing speech sounds.
Examples of the notation appear in Alexander J. Ellis's 1889 work on English pronunciation and A. Dolgopolsky's 1987 work comparing languages.
Specialist phonetic notation for speech-sound analysis.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Together, the halves bracket a doubtful sound or question whether it belongs in transcription.
Questions people ask
1Why does ⹚ look different in my font?
It is a font difference: Unicode identifies the character, while each font draws its glyph in its own style.
How to type ⹚
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E5A, 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 “top half right parenthesis”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e5a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⹚CSS
\2E5ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⹚
HTML hex
⹚
CSS content
content: "\2E5A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B9%9A
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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.