Dagger (mark)

† ‡ ⸸
Dagger
In UnicodeU+2020 DAGGER (†)
U+2021 DOUBLE DAGGER (‡, ‡)
U+2E38 TURNED DAGGER
Different from
Different fromU+271D LATIN CROSS
U+2628 CROSS OF LORRAINE
Related
See alsoU+2E4B TRIPLE DAGGER

A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used.[1] The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages).[2] 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.[3][a]

A double dagger or diesis is a variant with two hilts and crossguards that usually marks a third footnote after the asterisk and dagger.[5] The triple dagger is a variant with three crossguards and is used by medievalists to indicate another level of notation.[6]

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  2. ^ "Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 2019.
  3. ^ "Dagger (8)". The Oxford English Dictionary (D–E. 1933. p. 7.
  4. ^ "obelus". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press. April 2010.[dead link]
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  6. ^ "Proposal to add Medievalist punctuation characters to the UCS" (PDF). 25 January 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2018.


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