U+2059 "⁙" Five Dot Punctuation Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+2059 "⁙" Five Dot Punctuation is a typographical mark originally used in medieval and early modern manuscripts, particularly in Latin and Greek texts, to indicate a major pause or break in the text, functioning similarly to a modern paragraph break or section divider. It consists of five dots arranged in a cross like pattern resembling a plus sign, with four dots forming a square and the fifth in the center, and it belongs to the General Punctuation block in Unicode. This character is also known as a "greek pentonkion" or "five dot mark" and is still used occasionally in scholarly editions and liturgical texts to denote a significant syntactic separation.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2059
Name
Five Dot Punctuation
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
⁙
HTML Hex Encoding
⁙
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x81 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2059
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002059
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2059
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common