Also known as obelisk, obelus, DAGGER, long cross, oblong cross, dagger (mark)
dagger, obelisk, obelus, long cross, oblong cross (U+2020), typographic mark used to indicate a note call
Key facts
- In unicode
- U+2020 † DAGGER ( & dagger; ), U+2021 ‡ DOUBLE DAGGER ( & Dagger;, & ddagger; ), U+2E38 ⸸ TURNED DAGGER , U+2E4B ⹋ TRIPLE DAGGER
- Different from
- U+271D ✝ LATIN CROSS , U+2628 ☨ CROSS OF LORRAINE
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- punctuation mark
- Named after
- ÷
- Image
- Dagger-vector.svg
- Has use
- marginalia
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- TeX string
- \dagger
- Unicode character name
- DAGGER
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- HTML entity
- †
- key press
- Alt + 0134
- Unicode character
- †
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Commons category
- †
- Unicode code point
- 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). It is one of the modern descendants of the obelus, a mark used historically by scholars as a critical or highlighting indicator in manuscripts. In older texts, it is called an obelisk.
A double dagger, or diesis, ‡ is a variant with two hilts and crossguards that usually marks a third footnote after the asterisk and dagger. The triple dagger ⹋ is a variant with three crossguards and is used by medievalists to indicate another level of notation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “†” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.