U+2E54 "⹔" Medieval Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⹔
U+2E54 "⹔" Medieval Question Mark is a punctuation symbol used primarily in medieval manuscripts to indicate a question, often in Latin and other early European texts. It resembles a stylized, bent or inverted mark, distinct from the modern question mark, and was employed by scribes to denote interrogative clauses or rising intonation in written form. This character was added to the Unicode standard to aid in the accurate digital representation and scholarly study of historical documents, preserving the typographic practices of the medieval period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E54 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Medieval Question 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 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e54 |