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U+205E · VERTICAL FOUR DOTS

Vertical Four Dots

  • CodepointU+205E
  • NameVERTICAL FOUR DOTS
  • Decimal8286
  • 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+205E (⁞) is VERTICAL FOUR DOTS, 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 9E3 bytes
UTF-16205E1 code unit
UTF-320000205E4 bytes
HTML decimal⁞
HTML hex⁞
CSS\205Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\u205E
JSON\u205E
Python\u205E
Python\N{VERTICAL FOUR DOTS}by name
Java / C#\u205E
C / C++\u205Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{205E}
Go\u205E
Ruby\u205E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8286)
URL-encoded%E2%81%9Epercent-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 →
U+2058⁘Four Dot Punctuation U+2059⁙Five Dot Punctuation U+205A⁚Two Dot Punctuation U+205B⁛Four Dot Mark U+205C⁜Dotted Cross U+205D⁝Tricolon U+205FMMSPMedium Mathematical Space U+2060WJWord Joiner U+2061U+2061Function Application U+2062U+2062Invisible Times U+2063U+2063Invisible Separator U+2064U+2064Invisible Plus