U+2E09 "⸉" Left Transposition Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸉
U+2E09 "⸉" Left Transposition Bracket is a specialized punctuation mark used primarily in textual criticism and scholarly editing. It forms the left half of a pair of brackets, with its counterpart being U+2E0A "Right Transposition Bracket", traditionally employed to indicate that text enclosed within them has been transposed or moved from its original order in a manuscript or source. This character belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and is designed to help editors clearly mark textual rearrangements without altering the underlying document, making it a valuable tool for researchers working with historical or textual variants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E09 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Left Transposition Bracket |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation |
| General Category | Initial Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "⸊" U+2E0A Right Transposition Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⸉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⸉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB8 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e09 |
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 |