U+2E17 "⸗" Double Oblique Hyphen Unicode Character

U+2E17 "⸗" Double Oblique Hyphen is a typographic mark that resembles two closely spaced oblique or slanted dashes, designed to function as a hyphen or dash alternative in certain historical and linguistic contexts. It was primarily used in older European manuscript traditions, such as in Middle High German and some early English texts, where it served as a punctuation mark to indicate a line-break hyphen or to join compound words without the single straight hyphen typical of modern print. Today, the double oblique hyphen is also employed in specialized fields like philology and digital typography to represent a deliberate stylistic or scholarly distinction, though it remains rare in everyday writing.