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

Code Point U+2E5A
Version Added 14.0
Name Top Half Right Parenthesis
Block Supplemental Punctuation
General Category Close Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Mirrored Yes
Mirrored Character "⹙" U+2E59 Top Half Left Parenthesis
Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type Close
Bidirectional Paired Bracket "⹙" U+2E59 Top Half Left Parenthesis

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

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