U+2E55 "⹕" Left Square Bracket with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⹕
U+2E55 "⹕" Left Square Bracket with Stroke is an orthographic punctuation mark used primarily in historical or medieval manuscript transcriptions to indicate an editorial correction, deletion, or a specific scribal notation. It resembles a standard left square bracket but includes a diagonal stroke crossing through its interior, distinguishing it from the plain bracket. This character belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and is employed in scholarly text editing to mark where a letter or word has been struck through or otherwise modified in the source material. Its use helps maintain fidelity to the original manuscript while clarifying the editor's intervention.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E55 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Left Square Bracket with Stroke |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "⹖" U+2E56 Right Square Bracket with Stroke |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Open |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "⹖" U+2E56 Right Square Bracket with Stroke |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⹕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⹕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB9 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e55 |
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 | Open Punctuation |
| 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 | Close |