U+2E5A "⹚" Top Half Right Parenthesis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2E5A "⹚" Top Half Right Parenthesis is a specialized punctuation mark used primarily in historical and scholarly text markup, particularly within medieval manuscripts or transcriptions to indicate the upper portion of a right parenthesis that has been split across two lines of a document. Its presence allows editors to denote textual interruptions, such as when a parenthetical expression is broken at a line break, with the top half appearing at the end of one line and the bottom half at the start of the next. This character belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and serves as a typographic aid for precise representation of original source material in fields like philology and paleography, where fidelity to the layout of ancient or complex texts is essential.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⹚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⹚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0xB9 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2E5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002E5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2e5a |
Unicode Properties