U+2E38 "⸸" Turned Dagger Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸸
U+2E38 "⸸" Turned Dagger is a typographic symbol classified within the Supplemental Punctuation block, representing a dagger or obelus rotated 180 degrees from its standard orientation. Historically, the standard dagger symbol was used in textual annotations to mark a footnote or a death date, and the turned variant serves a similar editorial or critical purpose, often indicating a secondary reference or a subtle distinction in scholarly or liturgical texts. Its design features a vertical line with a horizontal crossbar near the top, and when inverted, it appears as a cross-like shape with the crossbar near the bottom, aligning with its use in specialized notation systems like those for indicating a cross-reference or a marginal note.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E38 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Turned Dagger |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e38 |
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 |