U+2056 "⁖" Three Dot Punctuation Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⁖
U+2056 "⁖" Three Dot Punctuation is a typographic mark that consists of three vertically aligned dots, distinct from the more common horizontal ellipsis. It is classified under the General Punctuation block and is used in certain historical and scholarly texts, particularly in medieval manuscripts or archaic alphabets, to indicate a pause, a break in thought, or a form of punctuation analogous to a modern colon or semicolon. This character is rarely employed in contemporary writing but remains available in the Unicode standard for precise representation of older or specialized notation systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2056 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Three Dot Punctuation |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2056 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002056 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2056 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Break After |
| 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 |