U+2E4E "⹎" Punctus Elevatus Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⹎
U+2E4E "⹎" Punctus Elevatus Mark is a medieval punctuation symbol used in Latin and Old Church Slavonic manuscripts to indicate a medium pause or a rising intonation, functioning as an early form of the comma or a half stop. Its distinctive shape resembles a raised point or a short, vertical line with a curved flourish, often appearing above the line of text. This mark was employed by scribes to clarify sentence structure and assist in oral reading, particularly in liturgical contexts, before the standardization of modern punctuation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E4E |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Punctus Elevatus Mark |
| 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 0xB9 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e4e |