U+2E3F "⸿" Capitulum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⸿
U+2E3F "⸿" Capitulum is a historic punctuation mark originally used in medieval manuscripts to denote the start of a new section or chapter, often serving a similar function to the modern pilcrow (¶). Its design typically resembles a stylized, small "C" with a vertical stroke, and it appears in specialized typographic and scholarly contexts today, particularly in textual criticism and historical reprintings, where it helps to preserve the original layout and structure of ancient documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E3F |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Capitulum |
| 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 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e3f |
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 |