U+2E16 "⸖" Dotted Right-Pointing Angle Unicode Character

U+2E16 "⸖" Dotted Right-Pointing Angle is a punctuation mark from the Supplemental Punctuation block, officially designated for use in historical and linguistic texts. It resembles a right-pointing angle bracket but is distinguished by a dot placed inside its interior, aligning it with a family of dotted punctuation symbols used to indicate specific editorial or phonetic annotations. While not common in modern everyday writing, this glyph finds its primary function in scholarly contexts, such as critical editions of ancient manuscripts or specialized linguistic notation where it may denote a particular pause, editorial insertion, or boundary in transcribed speech. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that such specialized typographic needs are preserved for digital text processing and academic publication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2E16
Version Added	4.1
Name	Dotted Right-Pointing Angle
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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2E16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002E16
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2e16

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	Alphabetic
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