U+205A "⁚" Two Dot Punctuation Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⁚
U+205A "⁚" Two Dot Punctuation is a typographic mark consisting of two vertically stacked dots, primarily used in medieval and early modern manuscripts as a form of punctuation, often indicating a pause or serving as a colon or other sentence break, though it is also employed in some modern contexts for stylistic purposes, such as in academic transcriptions, dictionary entries, or linguistic notation, where it functions similarly to a colon but with a distinct, historical appearance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+205A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Two 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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x205A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000205A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u205a |
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 | Carian Georgian Glagolitic Old Hungarian Lycian Old Turkic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |