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U+205A · TWO DOT PUNCTUATION

Two Dot Punctuation

  • CodepointU+205A
  • NameTWO DOT PUNCTUATION
  • Decimal8282
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version4.1 (2005)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+205A (⁚) is TWO DOT PUNCTUATION, a punctuation mark in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 4.1 (2005).

How to type ⁚

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 81 9A3 bytes
UTF-16205A1 code unit
UTF-320000205A4 bytes
HTML decimal⁚
HTML hex⁚
CSS\205Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u205A
JSON\u205A
Python\u205A
Python\N{TWO DOT PUNCTUATION}by name
Java / C#\u205A
C / C++\u205Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{205A}
Go\u205A
Ruby\u205A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8282)
URL-encoded%E2%81%9Apercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
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