Technical information

Symbol
NameVertical four dots
Unicode numberU+205E
CategoryPunctuation Symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⁞, or U+205E, is known as the "Vertical Four Dots". It belongs to the "General Punctuation" block and falls under the "Punctuation, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is used to represent omitted matter in quoted text or to indicate an ellipsis. The symbol typically comprises four small dots aligned vertically. However, the exact appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity⁞
HTML Entity (hex)⁞
URL Escape Code%E2%81%9E
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x81 0x9E
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000001:10011110
UTF-160x205E
UTF-320x0000205E

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u205E"
CSS Code\205E
JavaScript"\u205E"
Perl\x{205E}
Python 2u"\u205E"
Python 3\u205E
Ruby\u{205E}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ⁞ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
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36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8286;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\205E";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References