U+2E10 "⸐" Forked Paragraphos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸐
U+2E10 "⸐" Forked Paragraphos is a typographic mark used in ancient and medieval manuscripts, particularly in Greek and Latin texts, to indicate a break in sense or a new section within the prose, similar to a modern paragraph break. Its distinctive forked shape, often resembling a trident or an arrow with two diverging lines, was originally drawn in the margins by scribes to guide readers through textual divisions. In modern Unicode encoding, it belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and is sometimes employed in scholarly editions of classical works or in digital typography to replicate historical scribal notations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E10 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Forked Paragraphos |
| 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 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E10 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E10 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e10 |
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 |