Supplemental Punctuation

Supplemental Punctuation
Range	U+2E00..U+2E7F; (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Common
Assigned	83 code points
Unused	45 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1	26 (+26)
5.1	49 (+23)
5.2	50 (+1)
6.1	60 (+10)
7.0	67 (+7)
9.0	69 (+2)
10.0	74 (+5)
11.0	79 (+5)
12.0	80 (+1)
13.0	83 (+3)
	Note:

See also: General Punctuation (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Supplemental Punctuation is a Unicode block containing historic and specialized punctuation characters, including biblical editorial symbols, ancient Greek punctuation, and German dictionary marks.

Additional punctuation characters are in the General Punctuation block and sprinkled in dozens of other Unicode blocks.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Supplemental Punctuation block:

Version	Final code points^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
4.1	U+2E00..2E16	23	L2/02-033		Anderson, Deborah (2002-01-21), TLG Unicode Proposal (draft)
			L2/02-053		Anderson, Deborah (2002-02-04), Description of TLG Documents
			L2/02-273		Pantelia, Maria (2002-07-31), TLG Unicode Proposal
			L2/02-287		Pantelia, Maria (2002-08-09), Proposal Summary Form accompanying TLG Unicode Proposal (L2/02-273)
			L2/02-312R		Pantelia, Maria (2002-11-07), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
			L2/02-317R		Pantelia, Maria (2002-11-07), Proposal to encode New Testament editorial characters in the UCS
			L2/03-074R2	N2612-1	Pantelia, Maria (2003-06-11), Proposal to encode New Testament editorial characters in the UCS
			L2/03-324	N2642	Pantelia, Maria (2003-10-06), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
			L2/03-356R2		Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), UTC #97 Minutes
			U+2E17	1	L2/00-128		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
	L2/03-283	N2611			Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
	L2/03-327	N2636			Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
	L2/03-329	N2639			Everson, Michael (2003-10-03), On the use of HYPHEN and DOUBLE HYPHEN in Fraktur typography
	L2/03-354	N2655			Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-10), Proposal -- Symbols used in Dictionaries
	L2/03-338	N2647			Everson, Michael (2003-10-13), Further discussion of the DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
	L2/03-360	N2657			Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Additional information on typesetting Fraktur
	L2/03-347				Anderson, Deborah (2003-10-19), Background on DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
	L2/03-356R2				Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), UTC #97 Minutes
	L2/04-130	N2744			Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen (2004-04-20), Revision of the Coptic block under ballot for the BMP of the UCS
		N2824			Updated charts for Coptic N2744, 2004-06-22
	U+2E1C..2E1D	2			L2/04-283	N2833	Everson, Michael (2004-06-23), Revisions to the N'Ko script for the PDAM code chart
	5.1	U+2E18	1	L2/05-086	N2935	Everson, Michael (2005-04-01), Proposal to add INVERTED INTERROBANG to the UCS
				L2/05-141		McGowan, Rick (2005-05-10), Scripts Subcommittee Meeting Report
L2/05-270					Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis)
L2/05-337					Abril, Amadeu Abril i (2005-10-23), Letter from Amadeu Abril i Abril in support of inverted interrobang
L2/05-279					Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes
				N2953 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
U+2E19		1	L2/06-269	N3218	Perry, David J. (2006-08-01), Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS
			L2/06-324R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), UTC #109 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
				N2953 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
L2/07-004		N3193	Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Dohnicht, Marcus; Emiliano, António; Haugen, Odd Einar; Pedro, Susana; Perry, David J.; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-09), Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS
L2/07-015			Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), UTC #110 Minutes
		N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-268		N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-345			Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), UTC #113 Minutes
U+2E2F		1	L2/06-042		Cleminson, Ralph (2006-01-26), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
			L2/06-181		Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-08), Responses to the UTC regarding L2/06-042, Proposal for Additional Cyrillic Characters
			L2/06-359		Cleminson, Ralph (2006-10-31), Proposal for additional Cyrillic characters
			L2/07-003	N3194	Everson, Michael; Birnbaum, David; Cleminson, Ralph; Derzhanski, Ivan; Dorosh, Vladislav; Kryukov, Alexey; Paliga, Sorin; Ruppel, Klaas (2007-01-12), Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters in the BMP of the UCS
			L2/07-055		Cleminson, Ralph (2007-01-19), Comments on Additional Cyrillic Characters (L2/07-003 = WG2 N3194)
			L2/07-015		Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), UTC #110 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
5.2		U+2E31	1		N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
				L2/07-258		Whistler, Ken (2007-08-02), Middle Dots and Don'ts
	L2/07-260				Freytag, Asmus (2007-08-05), Non-blank spaces
	L2/07-225				Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), UTC #112 Minutes
	L2/07-320			N3347	Proposal to Encode WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT, 2007-09-18
	L2/07-345				Moore, Lisa (2007-10-25), UTC #113 Minutes, "Accept the codepoint change: U+2E37 WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT => U+2E31 WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT."
6.1	U+2E32, 2E35..2E39	6	L2/09-425	N3740	Everson, Michael (2009-12-05), Proposal to encode six punctuation characters in the UCS
			L2/10-015R		Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes
				N3803 (pdf, doc)	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24
	U+2E33..2E34	2	L2/10-290	N3873R	Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-08-05), Proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic
			L2/10-348	N3912	Everson, Michael; Emmel, Stephen; Richter, Siegfried G.; Pedro, Susana; Emiliano, António (2010-09-21), Revised proposal to add additional characters for Greek, Latin, and Coptic to the UCS
			L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
			L2/11-057	N3984	Pentzlin, Karl (2011-02-02), Notes on the naming of some characters proposed in the FCD of ISO/IEC 10646:2012
				N3903 (pdf, doc)	Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
	U+2E3A..2E3B	2	L2/10-015R		Moore, Lisa (2010-02-09), UTC #122 / L2 #219 Minutes
			L2/10-037	N3770	Pentzlin, Karl (2010-02-10), Proposal to encode two dashes required by the Chicago Manual of Style
				N3803 (pdf, doc)	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24
7.0	U+2E3C	1	L2/10-272R2	N3895	Anderson, Van (2010-08-12), Proposal to include Duployan Shorthands and Chinook script and Shorthand Format Controls in UCS
			L2/10-221		Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
				N4103	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
	U+2E3D..2E3E	2	L2/10-357	N3914	Proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS, 2010-10-29
			L2/11-135		Tumasonis, Vladas; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-02), Revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology
			L2/11-189		Whistler, Ken; Constable, Peter (2011-05-11), Review of Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology
			L2/11-191	N4062	Constable, Peter; Whistler, Ken (2011-05-13), USNB Comments on N3914 -Characters for Lithuanian Dialectology
			L2/11-116		Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes, "Accept 14 characters for Lithuanian dialectology..."
			L2/11-223	N4070	Tumasonis, Vladas; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-24), Second revised proposal to add characters used in Lithuanian dialectology to the UCS
			L2/11-248	N4116	Pentzlin, Karl (2011-06-09), Report on the ad hoc re "Lithuanian dialectology" (SC2/WG2 N4070) held during the SC2/WG2 meeting at Helsinki
				N4103	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
	U+2E3F	1	L2/11-052R		Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study
			L2/11-149		Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols
			L2/11-196	N4022	Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal
			L2/11-247	N4115	Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/11-344	N4143	Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
				N4103	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
				N4363	Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/12-368	N4384	Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols
			L2/12-086	N4223	Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27
	U+2E40	1	L2/00-128		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
			L2/03-283	N2611	Everson, Michael (2003-08-24), Proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
			L2/03-327	N2636	Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to add the Coptic alphabet to the BMP of the UCS
			L2/03-329	N2639	Everson, Michael (2003-10-03), On the use of HYPHEN and DOUBLE HYPHEN in Fraktur typography
			L2/03-338	N2647	Everson, Michael (2003-10-13), Further discussion of the DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
			L2/03-360	N2657	Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Additional information on typesetting Fraktur
			L2/03-347		Anderson, Deborah (2003-10-19), Background on DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
			L2/04-053		Emmel, Stephen (2004-01-26), Changes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2636 and N2676 recommended by the International Association for Coptic Studies
			L2/10-162		Pentzlin, Karl (2010-05-04), Proposal to encode a punctuation mark "Double Hyphen"
			L2/10-108		Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, "Create a PRI for adding an annotation to U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN indicating that it may appear in either an oblique or horizontal form."
			L2/10-214		Freytag, Asmus (2010-06-17), Oblique hyphen vs. Double Hyphen
			L2/10-361	N3917	Pentzlin, Karl (2010-09-28), Revised Proposal to encode a punctuation mark "Double Hyphen"
			L2/11-038	N3983	Revised Proposal to encode a punctuation mark "Double Hyphen", 2011-01-17
			L2/11-261R2		Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
				N4103	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
	U+2E41..2E42^{[lower-alpha 2]}	2	L2/09-240	N3664	Everson, Michael; Szelp, André Szabolcs (2009-07-23), Proposal for encoding generic punctuation used with the Hungarian Runic script
			L2/09-292	N3670	Hosszú, Gábor (2009-08-08), Proposal for encoding generic punctuation used with the Szekler Hungarian Rovas script
			L2/11-261R2		Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
				N4103	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
9.0	U+2E43	1	L2/13-164		Cleminson, Ralph; Birnbaum, David (2013-07-25), Feedback from Experts on Cyrillic proposals
			L2/13-165		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-140		Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2013-09-23), Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark
			L2/13-212		Anderson, Deborah (2013-11-01), Expert Feedback on L2/13-140 SLAVONIC PARAGRAPHOS
			L2/14-053		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
			L2/13-238	N4534	Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2014-02-04), Proposal to Encode a Slavonic Punctuation Mark in Unicode
			L2/14-026		Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), UTC #138 Minutes
				N4553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
	U+2E44	1	L2/14-157	N4595	Kalvesmaki, Joel (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode GREEK BYZANTINE DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK
			L2/14-170		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals
			L2/14-177		Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), UTC #140 Minutes
			L2/16-052	N4603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63
10.0	U+2E45..2E49	5	L2/15-173		Andreev, Aleksandr; Shardt, Yuri; Simmons, Nikita (2015-07-29), Proposal to Encode some Additional Symbols used in Church Slavonic Text
			L2/15-187		Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), UTC #144 Minutes
				N4739	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
11.0	U+2E4A..2E4E	5	L2/07-004	N3193	Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Dohnicht, Marcus; Emiliano, António; Haugen, Odd Einar; Pedro, Susana; Perry, David J.; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-09), Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS
			L2/16-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-327R	N4704R	Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar (2016-01-25), Proposal to add Medievalist punctuation characters
			L2/16-004		Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), UTC #146 Minutes
			L2/16-125	N4726	Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Grammel, Florian; Haugen, Odd Einar (2016-05-04), Revised Proposal to add Medievalist punctuation characters
			L2/16-123		Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 22, 2016 - May 03, 2016), 2016-05-05
			L2/16-156		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/16-219		Anderson, Deborah (2016-07-30), Feedback and Evidence on Medievalist punctuation characters
			L2/16-220		Everson, Michael et al. (2016-08-01), Proposal for Medieval Comma
			L2/16-235		Everson, Michael et al. (2016-08-05), Proposal to encode PARAGRAPHUS and PUNCTUS ELEVATUS
			L2/16-203		Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), UTC #148 Minutes
				N4873R (pdf, doc)	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
12.0	U+2E4F	1	L2/17-342	N4902	Everson, Michael (2017-09-27), Proposal to add two characters for Medieval Cornish
				N4910	Anderson, Deborah (2017-09-27), Medieval Ad Hoc Report
				N4953 (pdf, doc)	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
			L2/17-357	N4906	Everson, Michael (2017-10-19), Proposal to add one punctuation character for Medieval Cornish
			L2/17-384		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-10-22), Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals
				N4938	Draft Disposition of comments on PDAM2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition, 2018-03-13
			L2/18-183		Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), UTC #156 Minutes
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
13.0	U+2E50..2E51	2	L2/19-076R	N5037R	Everson, Michael (2019-05-05), Proposal to encode three cross symbols
			L2/19-173		Anderson, Deborah (2019-04-29), Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals
			L2/19-122		Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), UTC #159 Minutes
				N5122	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31
	U+2E52	1	L2/17-300	N4841	Everson, Michael (2017-09-05), Proposal to add five Latin Tironian letters
			L2/17-367	N4885	Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa (2017-09-18), Comments on WG2 #66 (Sept. 2017) documents
				N4953 (pdf, doc)	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
			L2/17-359	N4908	Everson, Michael (2017-10-21), Proposal to add six Latin Tironian letters
			L2/17-384		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-10-22), Recommendations to UTC #153 October 2017 on Script Proposals
			L2/19-199		Silva, Eduardo Marín (2019-05-07), Response to the proposal to add the Tironinan letters
				N5095	Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai; Constable, Peter; Moore, Lisa (2019-06-10), Comments on WG2 #68 documents
				N5122	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31
			L2/19-286		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals
			L2/19-270		Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), UTC #160 Minutes
			14.0	U+2E53..2E54	2	L2/20-270R^{[lower-alpha 3]}	N5147R	Everson, Michael (2020-11-10), Proposal to add two mediaeval punctuation characters
L2/21-016R		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-009		Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), UTC #166 Minutes
U+2E55..2E5C	8	L2/21-042			Miller, Kirk (2021-01-11), Unicode request for phonetic punctuation & diacritics
		L2/21-016R			Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
		L2/21-009			Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), UTC #166 Minutes
U+2E5D	1	L2/21-036		N5152	Everson, Michael (2021-01-12), Proposal to add the OBLIQUE HYPHEN
		L2/21-016R			Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
		L2/21-009			Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), UTC #166 Minutes
↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↑ Refer to the history section of the Old Hungarian block for additional Old Hungarian-related documents ↑ See also L2/16-125, L2/15-327R, and L2/07-004 Cite error: `<ref>` tag with name "also13207" defined in `<references>` is not used in prior text. Cite error: `<ref>` tag with name "emojidocs" defined in `<references>` is not used in prior text.

References

↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

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[final-3] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[alsoU2E41-4] Refer to the history section of the Old Hungarian block for additional Old Hungarian-related documents

[also20270-5] See also L2/16-125, L2/15-327R, and L2/07-004

[1] "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

[2] "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

Supplemental Punctuation
Range	U+2E00..U+2E7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Common
Assigned	83 code points
Unused	45 reserved code points
Unicode version history

4.1	26 (+26)
5.1	49 (+23)
5.2	50 (+1)
6.1	60 (+10)
7.0	67 (+7)
9.0	69 (+2)
10.0	74 (+5)
11.0	79 (+5)
12.0	80 (+1)
13.0	83 (+3)

Note: ^[1]^[2]