U+2E12 "⸒" Hypodiastole Unicode Character

U+2E12 "⸒" Hypodiastole is a historical punctuation mark used primarily in ancient Greek and Latin texts to indicate a word division or a slight pause, functioning much like a modern comma or interpunct. It was originally employed to separate words that might otherwise be confused, such as in scriptio continua where spaces were absent. Though rarely used in contemporary writing, it has been preserved in Unicode for scholarly and typographic accuracy in reproducing classical manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2E12
Version Added	4.1
Name	Hypodiastole
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 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2E12
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002E12
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2e12

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