Translingual
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Punctuation mark
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⸗
- (lexicography) Used in some dictionaries when a hyphenated word breaks on the hyphen at the end of a line.
- Synonym: ⹀
- (palaeography, Coptic) Conventionally used in modern texts to indicate a pre-pronominal form in Coptic grammar, as opposed to the simple hyphen for other uses.
Usage notes
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In Fraktur script, the normal hyphen has the appearance of this glyph. However, it should be encoded as an ASCII hyphen and left to the font to render properly.
Further reading
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