Metrical Two Shorts Joined

Metrical Two Shorts Joined at U+23D6 marks a prosodic pattern made of two short syllables treated as a linked unit. It is part of the Miscellaneous Technical block and belongs to a small set of metrical notation symbols used in the study of verse rather than in everyday text. Its main setting is classical metrics, especially in editions, commentaries, and teaching materials for Greek and Latin poetry. A short syllable is normally shown with a breve-like mark, and this symbol indicates two consecutive shorts joined together, often where a foot or substitution needs to be made visually clear in a scansion line. You may also see it in broader poetic analysis, philology, or digital transcriptions that try to reproduce specialized scansion marks faithfully. In practice it is much less common than plain macron and breve signs, so printed textbooks often use custom typography or simpler approximations instead.