U+2E36 "⸶" Dagger with Left Guard Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸶
U+2E36 "⸶" Dagger with Left Guard is a typographic punctuation mark used primarily in historical and scholarly texts, particularly in critical editions or annotations. It resembles a standard dagger symbol (†) but features a small horizontal line or guard on its left side, which serves to distinguish it from similar marks or to indicate a specific kind of reference or footnote placement. This character belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and is a rare glyph, often employed in specialized philological or liturgical contexts where precise notation of marginal notes or textual variants is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E36 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Dagger with Left Guard |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e36 |
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 |