Coronis (textual symbol)

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Coronis has many glyph variants. Here are three basic forms.

This article is about Coronis (textual symbol). For use in mythology, see Coronis (Greek mythology).

In ancient Greek papyri coronis (κορωνίς koronis) was used to mark sub-sections in poetic texts, in conjunction with a paragraphos. The meaning of the Greek word is curved or bent, in writing it denotes flourish with the pen at the end of a book or chapter.

There were many other such shorthand symbols, to indicate corrections, emendations, deletions, additions, and so on. Most used are the obelos, the paragraphos, the forked paragraphos, the reversed forked paragraphos, the hypodiastole, the downwards ancora, the upwards ancora, and the dotted right-pointing angle, which is also known as the diple periestigmene. Loosely, all these symbols, and the act of annotation by means of them, are obelism.

These nine ancient Greek textual annotation symbols are also included in the supplemental punctuation list of ISO IEC standard 10646 for character sets.