U+2E21 "⸡" Right Vertical Bar with Quill Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸡
U+2E21 "⸡" Right Vertical Bar with Quill is a historic punctuation mark used primarily in early modern English and German printed texts, where it served as a typographic variant of the comma or a short pause, often appearing in handwritten manuscripts to indicate a brief break in phrasing. Its design features a vertical line with a small quill or hook at the bottom, distinguishing it from the standard vertical bar. This character belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and is rarely used in contemporary writing, but it remains of interest to scholars studying the evolution of punctuation and calligraphic conventions in Renaissance-era documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E21 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Right Vertical Bar with Quill |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation |
| General Category | Final Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "⸠" U+2E20 Left Vertical Bar with Quill |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⸡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⸡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB8 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e21 |
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 | Quotation |
| 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 | Close |