U+2E16 Dotted Right-Pointing Angle
U+2E16 was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as diple periestigmene.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2E16 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Diple (Ancient Greek: διπλῆ, meaning double, referring to the two lines in the mark >) was a mark used in the margins of ancient Greek manuscripts to draw attention to something in the text. It is sometimes also called antilambda because the sign resembles a Greek capital letter lambda (Λ) turned upon its side. In some ways its usage was similar to modern day quotation marks; guillemets (« »), used for quotations in French, are derived from it.
Isidore remarks in his Etymologiae (I.21.13) that the diple was used to mark quotations from the Bible. He also talks about diple peri strichon (or sticon), which was used to draw attention to separate concepts, and diple periestigmene used (like obelos) to mark dubious passages. Diple obolismene was used according to Isidore to separate sentences in comedies and tragedies, so its usage was similar to that of paragraphos.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 11798 |
UTF-8 | E2 B8 96 |
UTF-16 | 2E 16 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 2E 16 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%B8%96 |
HTML hex reference | ⸖ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⸖ |
alias | diple periestigmene |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 38 F3 32 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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