U+2E1A "⸚" Hyphen with Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸚
U+2E1A "⸚" Hyphen with Diaeresis is a rarely used punctuation mark that combines a hyphen with two dots (a diaeresis or umlaut) placed above it, designed to function as a specialized break or connection symbol in certain historical or technical texts. It was occasionally employed in older orthographies or linguistic notation to indicate a specific type of hyphenation or phonological separation where the diaeresis signals that the hyphenated element is pronounced distinctly or as a separate syllable. Despite its inclusion in the Unicode standard, this character has limited practical application in modern digital writing and is primarily of interest to scholars studying historical typography or obscure script systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E1A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Hyphen with Diaeresis |
| 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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e1a |
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 |
| Dash | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |