Tironian Sign Et
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Tironian Sign Et has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⁊
- Unicode
- U+204A
About this symbol
⁊ is the Tironian et, a sign for “and” from the shorthand system said to have been invented by Tiro, the secretary of the Roman orator Cicero, in the first century BC. Medieval scribes used it widely, and it survives in Ireland, where road signs use ⁊ for agus, the Irish word for and.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- TIRONIAN SIGN ET
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 3.0 (1999)
- Unicode notes
- Irish Gaelic, Old English, ...
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