U+2E4F "⹏" Cornish Verse Divider Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2E4F "⹏" Cornish Verse Divider is a punctuation mark used primarily in medieval and early modern Cornish language manuscripts to separate lines of verse, functioning as a metrical or structural divider within poetic texts. It belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and is distinct from more common dividers like the solidus or hyphen, as it was historically employed to clarify the rhythmic or stanzaic breaks unique to Cornish poetry. This character helps scholars accurately transcribe and preserve the original formatting of Cornish literary works, ensuring that the visual and functional cues of the source texts are maintained in digital or printed reproductions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E4F |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Cornish Verse Divider |
| 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 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E4F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E4F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e4f |