U+2E52 "⹒" Tironian Sign Capital Et Unicode Character

U+2E52 "⹒" Tironian Sign Capital Et is a specialized typographic symbol used in medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly in Irish and Latin texts, to represent the Latin word "et," meaning "and." It visually resembles a stylized, capital-letter abbreviation derived from the Tironian notes, an ancient shorthand system attributed to Cicero's scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro. This character is distinct from the more commonly seen lowercase Tironian et (⁊) and is encoded for historical and paleographic purposes, allowing digital representation of scribal abbreviations found in documents such as the Book of Kells or early printed works. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate transcription and scholarly analysis of historical texts without relying on modern conventions like the ampersand.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2E52
Version Added	13.0
Name	Tironian Sign Capital Et
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 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2E52
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002E52
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2e52

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