U+2E08 "⸈" Dotted Transposition Marker Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸈
U+2E08 "⸈" Dotted Transposition Marker is a punctuation symbol used in textual criticism and scholarly editing to indicate that two adjacent elements in a text have been transposed or swapped. Its design features a single dot positioned above a longer dot or short horizontal line, resembling a simplified musical rest or a compact notation mark. This character appears within the Supplemental Punctuation block and serves a specialized function in philological contexts, particularly in annotated editions or diplomatic transcriptions where editors need to signal a reversal of word order or sequence without altering the original manuscript form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E08 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Dotted Transposition 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e08 |
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 |