What ⸣ means
It closes the upper pair around a damaged or partly legible passage.
For cuneiform, ⸢sign⸣ can mark a half-broken sign; editions of Aramaic and Phoenician inscriptions also use the pair around damaged letters. The marks separate surviving traces from letters an editor supplies.
The damaged-text bracket convention appears in 19th-century epigraphic practice and was discussed at a 1931 Leiden meeting.
Scholarly editorial notation, used in critical editions and transcriptions.
Check the edition’s key before treating it as a mathematical bracket.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Questions 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.
How to type ⸣
⸣\2E23Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.