U+2059 "⁙" Five Dot Punctuation Unicode Character

U+2059 "⁙" Five Dot Punctuation is a typographical mark originally used in medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly in Latin and Greek texts, to indicate a major pause or break in the text, functioning similarly to a modern paragraph break or section divider. It consists of five dots arranged in a cross like pattern resembling a plus sign, with four dots forming a square and the fifth in the center, and it belongs to the General Punctuation block in Unicode. This character is also known as a "greek pentonkion" or "five dot mark" and is still used occasionally in scholarly editions and liturgical texts to denote a significant syntactic separation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2059
Version Added	4.1
Name	Five Dot Punctuation
Block	General Punctuation
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⁙
HTML Hex Encoding	⁙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x81 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2059
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002059
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2059

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Break After
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other