U+2E01 "⸁" Right Angle Dotted Substitution Marker Unicode Character

U+2E01 "⸁" Right Angle Dotted Substitution Marker is a specialized punctuation symbol used primarily in textual criticism and scholarly editing, where it denotes that a character, word, or passage in a manuscript has been replaced or substituted by a later scribe or corrector. Its function is to mark a specific point of textual alteration, often applied in the transcription of ancient or medieval documents to represent a diacritical or marginal notation made by the original scribe. Though rarely encountered in general writing, it serves as a precise tool for editors and philologists working with critical editions of historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2E01
Version Added	4.1
Name	Right Angle Dotted Substitution Marker
Block	Supplemental 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 0xB8 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2E01
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002E01
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2e01

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	Quotation
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	Close