U+2E56 "⹖" Right Square Bracket with Stroke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⹖
U+2E56 "⹖" Right Square Bracket with Stroke is a punctuation mark in the Supplemental Punctuation block, designed for specialized textual annotation and scholarly editing. It resembles a standard right square bracket but includes a short horizontal stroke passing through its middle, distinguishing it from the common closing bracket. This character is primarily used in philological and linguistic contexts to indicate a specific editorial or scribal notation, such as marking a variant reading or a textual boundary in critical editions. Its inclusion in Unicode supports precise transcription of historical manuscripts and technical documentation where conventional brackets are insufficient.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E56 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Right Square Bracket with Stroke |
| Block | Supplemental Punctuation |
| General Category | Close Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "⹕" U+2E55 Left Square Bracket with Stroke |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Close |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "⹕" U+2E55 Left Square Bracket with Stroke |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⹖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⹖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xB9 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e56 |
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 | Close Parenthesis |
| 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 |