U+2E55 "⹕" Left Square Bracket with Stroke Unicode Character

U+2E55 "⹕" Left Square Bracket with Stroke is an orthographic punctuation mark used primarily in historical or medieval manuscript transcriptions to indicate an editorial correction, deletion, or a specific scribal notation. It resembles a standard left square bracket but includes a diagonal stroke crossing through its interior, distinguishing it from the plain bracket. This character belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block and is employed in scholarly text editing to mark where a letter or word has been struck through or otherwise modified in the source material. Its use helps maintain fidelity to the original manuscript while clarifying the editor's intervention.