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A mark opening a passage.
Also known as: Ethiopic introductory mark
The Ethiopic mark introducing a quoted or set-apart passage of text.
Introduces a quoted or set-apart passage in Ethiopic text.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Part of a punctuation system built almost entirely from arrangements of dots, where the count and layout of the dots rather than any stroke shape carries the distinction.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A group of dots arranged in a vertical figure, set before the passage it introduces.