PROTOTYPE

See also the currently published format: U2E00.pdf, and the raw data parsed from NamesList.txt: 2E00.json.

2E00 Supplemental Punctuation 2E7F

New Testament editorial symbols

2E00 RIGHT ANGLE SUBSTITUTION MARKER

CROSS_REF { "name2": "top left corner", "cp2": "231C" }

2E01 RIGHT ANGLE DOTTED SUBSTITUTION MARKER
2E02 LEFT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
2E03 RIGHT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
2E04 LEFT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
2E05 RIGHT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
2E06 RAISED INTERPOLATION MARKER

CROSS_REF { "name2": "down tack", "cp2": "22A4" }

2E07 RAISED DOTTED INTERPOLATION MARKER
2E08 DOTTED TRANSPOSITION MARKER
2E09 LEFT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET
2E0A RIGHT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET
2E0B RAISED SQUARE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used as an opening raised omission bracket" }

2E0C LEFT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used as an opening or closing raised omission bracket" }

2E0D RIGHT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used as a closing or opening raised omission bracket" }

Ancient Greek textual symbols

2E0E EDITORIAL CORONIS

CROSS_REF { "name2": "greek koronis", "cp2": "1FBD" }

2E0F PARAGRAPHOS
2E10 FORKED PARAGRAPHOS
2E11 REVERSED FORKED PARAGRAPHOS
2E12 HYPODIASTOLE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "ypodiastoli" }

2E13 DOTTED OBELOS

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "glyph variants may look like '00F7' or '2238'" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "commercial minus sign", "cp2": "2052" }

2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "contrary to its formal name this symbol points upwards" }

2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "contrary to its formal name this symbol points downwards" }

2E16 DOTTED RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "diple periestigmene" }

Ancient Near-Eastern linguistic symbol

2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used in ancient Near-Eastern linguistics" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "hyphen in Fraktur text uses 002D or 2010, but with a '2E17' glyph in Fraktur fonts" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "hyphen-minus", "cp2": "002D" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "equals sign", "cp2": "003D" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "hyphen", "cp2": "2010" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "double hyphen", "cp2": "2E40" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "oblique hyphen", "cp2": "2E5D" }

General punctuation

2E18 INVERTED INTERROBANG

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "gnaborretni" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "interrobang", "cp2": "203D" }

2E19 PALM BRANCH

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used as a separator" }

Dictionary punctuation

These punctuation marks are used mostly in German dictionaries, to indicate umlaut or case changes with abbreviated stems.

2E1A HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates umlaut of the stem vowel of a plural form" }

2E1B TILDE WITH RING ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates change in case for derived form" }

Brackets

2E1C LEFT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET
2E1D RIGHT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used in N'Ko" }

Dictionary punctuation

2E1E TILDE WITH DOT ABOVE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates derived form changes to uppercase" }

2E1F TILDE WITH DOT BELOW

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates derived form changes to lowercase" }

Brackets

2E20 LEFT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL

CROSS_REF { "name2": "left square bracket with quill", "cp2": "2045" }

2E21 RIGHT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL

Half brackets

These form a set of four corner brackets and are used editorially. They are distinguished from mathematical floor and ceiling characters. Occasionally quine corners are substituted for half brackets.

2E22 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET

CROSS_REF { "name2": "left ceiling", "cp2": "2308" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "top left corner", "cp2": "231C" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "left corner bracket", "cp2": "300C" }

2E23 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET
2E24 BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET
2E25 BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET

Brackets

2E26 LEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET

CROSS_REF { "name2": "subset of", "cp2": "2282" }

2E27 RIGHT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET

CROSS_REF { "name2": "superset of", "cp2": "2283" }

2E28 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS

CROSS_REF { "name2": "left white parenthesis", "cp2": "2985" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "fullwidth left white parenthesis", "cp2": "FF5F" }

2E29 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS

Historic punctuation

See also historic punctuation with multiple dots in the range 2058-205E.

2E2A TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION
2E2B ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION
2E2C SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION
2E2D FIVE DOT MARK
2E2E REVERSED QUESTION MARK

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "punctus percontativus" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "question mark", "cp2": "003F" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "inverted question mark", "cp2": "00BF" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "arabic question mark", "cp2": "061F" }

2E2F VERTICAL TILDE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used for Cyrillic yerik" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining vertical tilde", "cp2": "033E" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "cyrillic payerok", "cp2": "A67F" }

2E30 RING POINT

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used in Avestan" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "ring operator", "cp2": "2218" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "white bullet", "cp2": "25E6" }

2E31 WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used in Avestan, Samaritan, ..." }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "middle dot", "cp2": "00B7" }

Palaeotype transliteration symbol

2E32 TURNED COMMA

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates nasalization" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "arabic comma", "cp2": "060C" }

Historic punctuation

2E33 RAISED DOT

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "glyph position intermediate between 002E and 00B7" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "full stop", "cp2": "002E" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "middle dot", "cp2": "00B7" }

2E34 RAISED COMMA

CROSS_REF { "name2": "comma", "cp2": "002C" }

Palaeotype transliteration symbols

2E35 TURNED SEMICOLON

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates sudden glottal closure" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "arabic semicolon", "cp2": "061B" }

2E36 DAGGER WITH LEFT GUARD

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates retracted pronunciation" }

2E37 DAGGER WITH RIGHT GUARD

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates advanced pronunciation" }

2E38 TURNED DAGGER

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates retroflex pronunciation" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "dagger", "cp2": "2020" }

2E39 TOP HALF SECTION SIGN

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates pronunciation on one side of the mouth only" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "section sign", "cp2": "00A7" }

Dashes

These long dashes are shown in the code charts inside dashed square boxes because of their width. In production fonts they would simply display as extra-wide dashes.

2E3A TWO-EM DASH

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "omission dash" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "may be used in Chinese for abrupt change of thought, inserting new content, or continuation of tone or sound" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "em dash", "cp2": "2014" }

2E3B THREE-EM DASH

Alternate forms of punctuation

2E3C STENOGRAPHIC FULL STOP

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used in shorthands and stenographies" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "full stop", "cp2": "002E" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "canadian syllabics full stop", "cp2": "166E" }

2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS

CROSS_REF { "name2": "vertical four dots", "cp2": "205E" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "dotted fence", "cp2": "2999" }

2E3E WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE

CROSS_REF { "name2": "wavy line", "cp2": "2307" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "vertical zigzag line", "cp2": "299A" }

Historic punctuation

2E3F CAPITULUM

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "ancestor of the pilcrow sign" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "pilcrow sign", "cp2": "00B6" }

Double hyphen

The double hyphen is used in transcription of old German manuscripts, and occasionally as a non-standard punctuation mark. It is not intended for the representation of normal hyphens, whose doubled forms in Fraktur text are considered glyphic variants.

2E40 DOUBLE HYPHEN

CROSS_REF { "name2": "equals sign", "cp2": "003D" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "hyphen", "cp2": "2010" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "double oblique hyphen", "cp2": "2E17" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "katakana-hiragana double hyphen", "cp2": "30A0" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier letter short equals sign", "cp2": "A78A" }

Reversed punctuation

2E41 REVERSED COMMA

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Old Hungarian" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used occasionally in Sindhi when Sindhi is written in the Arabic script" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "comma", "cp2": "002C" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "arabic comma", "cp2": "060C" }

2E42 DOUBLE LOW-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK

CROSS_REF { "name2": "double low-9 quotation mark", "cp2": "201E" }

Miscellaneous punctuation

2E43 DASH WITH LEFT UPTURN

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "functions as a paragraphos in some Slavonic texts" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "paragraphos", "cp2": "2E0F" }

2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates omission of letters in a word on some Byzantine Greek seals and coins" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "greek numeral sign", "cp2": "0374" }

Typicon punctuation

2E45 INVERTED LOW KAVYKA
2E46 INVERTED LOW KAVYKA WITH KAVYKA ABOVE

CROSS_REF { "name2": "union above intersection", "cp2": "2A46" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "modifier breve with inverted breve", "cp2": "AB5B" }

2E47 LOW KAVYKA

CROSS_REF { "name2": "cyrillic kavyka", "cp2": "A67E" }

2E48 LOW KAVYKA WITH DOT
2E49 DOUBLE STACKED COMMA

Historic punctuation

2E4A DOTTED SOLIDUS

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "virgula suspensiva" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates a medial disjunction more than solidus but less than punctus elevatus" }

2E4B TRIPLE DAGGER

CROSS_REF { "name2": "dagger", "cp2": "2020" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "double dagger", "cp2": "2021" }

2E4C MEDIEVAL COMMA

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates a minor medial pause or disjunction of sense" }

2E4D PARAGRAPHUS MARK

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates the beginning of a paragraph, section, stanza, or proposition" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "pilcrow sign", "cp2": "00B6" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "reversed pilcrow sign", "cp2": "204B" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "paragraphos", "cp2": "2E0F" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "capitulum", "cp2": "2E3F" }

2E4E PUNCTUS ELEVATUS MARK

NOTICE_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "This mark indicates a major intermediate pause where the sensus is complete but the sentence is not; this is similar in some regards to the modern use of a semicolon." }

2E4F CORNISH VERSE DIVIDER
2E50 CROSS PATTY WITH RIGHT CROSSBAR

CROSS_REF { "name2": "maltese cross", "cp2": "2720" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "latin capital letter half h", "cp2": "2C75" }

2E51 CROSS PATTY WITH LEFT CROSSBAR

CROSS_REF { "name2": "latin capital letter reversed half h", "cp2": "A7F5" }

2E52 TIRONIAN SIGN CAPITAL ET

CROSS_REF { "name2": "tironian sign et", "cp2": "204A" }

2E53 MEDIEVAL EXCLAMATION MARK
2E54 MEDIEVAL QUESTION MARK

Brackets

These brackets indicate ellipsis in certain conventions for Japanese transliteration.

2E55 LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH STROKE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "optional ellipsis" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "left square bracket with quill", "cp2": "2045" }

2E56 RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH STROKE
2E57 LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH DOUBLE STROKE

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "obligatory ellipsis" }

2E58 RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH DOUBLE STROKE

Parentheses top and bottom halves

These are used in pairs in extended IPA to indicate dubious phonemes or questionable presence of a sound.

2E59 TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS
2E5A TOP HALF RIGHT PARENTHESIS
2E5B BOTTOM HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS
2E5C BOTTOM HALF RIGHT PARENTHESIS

Oblique hyphen

The oblique hyphen is historic punctuation seen in some medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. In some modern lexicography an oblique hyphen is used distinctly to indicate hyphenation which is retained when a word is not broken at a line boundary.

2E5D OBLIQUE HYPHEN

CROSS_REF { "name2": "hyphen", "cp2": "2010" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "double oblique hyphen", "cp2": "2E17" }