U+2025 "‥" Two Dot Leader Unicode Character
U+2025 "‥" Two Dot Leader is a typographic symbol that appears as two dots aligned horizontally, most commonly used to indicate a pause, omission, or trailing thought in written text, often serving as a stylistic alternative to an ellipsis (which uses three dots). It is frequently seen in East Asian scripts, such as Japanese and Chinese, where it can replace an ellipsis in vertical writing or denote a continuation, and it is also employed in some Western contexts for formatting tables or lists as a leader between text and numbers. Unlike an ellipsis, which suggests an intentional break or omission, the two dot leader can imply a more deliberate suspension or a link between separated elements, making it a specialized punctuation mark in both digital and print typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2025 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Two Dot Leader |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "." U+002E Full Stop "." U+002E Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ‥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ‥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2025 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002025 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2025 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Inseparable |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "." U+002E Full Stop "." U+002E Full Stop |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "." U+002E Full Stop "." U+002E Full Stop |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |