U+205D "⁝" Tricolon Unicode Character

U+205D "⁝" Tricolon is a typographic symbol consisting of three vertically stacked dots, resembling a colon offset with a third dot above or below, though it is visually distinct from both the standard colon and the ellipsis. It is formally classified in the General Punctuation block and is sometimes used in ancient or archaic texts, such as Greek manuscripts, to denote a major pause or a section break, similar to a modern paragraph separator. Its resemblance to a vertical ellipsis can occasionally lead to confusion with other punctuation like the dinkus or asterism, but the Tricolon serves a specific historical and stylistic function in certain scholarly and notational contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+205D
Version Added	4.1
Name	Tricolon
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 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x205D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000205D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u205d

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 Greek Old Hungarian Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other