What ⹋ means
It marks another level in an editorial sequence. Editors can use it after † and ‡ for notes or references.
Its historical setting is European punctuation in the Middle Ages. Medieval scholarship uses it in philology (study of old texts), palaeography (reading old handwriting), transcription (recording a text), and critical editions (prepared scholarly texts with notes).
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Dagger, double dagger, triple dagger: a rising series of reference marks.
A reference mark pointing to a note below.
Gothic-looking frame around a heading or name.
Questions people ask
1Why does triple dagger look blank?
A blank usually means the selected font lacks ⹋. Some medieval-text fonts use private-use slots—font-specific character positions—so a font with a different mapping can show another mark or nothing.
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How to type or find ⹋
- Also called
- tridagger
- Search it as
- triple dagger symbol · triple dagger mark · triple dagger unicode · double dagger · obelisk punctuation · ⹋
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⹋CSS
\2E4BUnicode/HTML
How to type triple dagger: in code use
\u2E4B; in HTML use ⹋.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⹋
HTML hex
⹋
CSS content
content: "\2E4B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%B9%8B
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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.