U+2E17 "⸗" Double Oblique Hyphen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸗
U+2E17 "⸗" Double Oblique Hyphen is a typographic mark that resembles two closely spaced oblique or slanted dashes, designed to function as a hyphen or dash alternative in certain historical and linguistic contexts. It was primarily used in older European manuscript traditions, such as in Middle High German and some early English texts, where it served as a punctuation mark to indicate a line-break hyphen or to join compound words without the single straight hyphen typical of modern print. Today, the double oblique hyphen is also employed in specialized fields like philology and digital typography to represent a deliberate stylistic or scholarly distinction, though it remains rare in everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E17 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Double Oblique Hyphen |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⸗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⸗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB8 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e17 |
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 | Unambiguous Hyphen |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Coptic Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Dash | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |