U+2E0B "⸋" Raised Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸋
U+2E0B "⸋" Raised Square is a typographical symbol used primarily in historical and scholarly text editing to denote an abbreviation or a scribal insertion, often marking a word or passage that has been added above the line in a manuscript. Unlike a regular square or box, this character is specifically designed to represent a small, elevated square shape, and it belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block, where it serves a niche but precise function for encoding ancient or medieval writing conventions. Its appearance as a standalone raised glyph helps editors and linguists indicate textual features in transcribed documents without relying on formatting tricks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E0B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Raised Square |
| 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 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e0b |
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 |