U+205E "⁞" Vertical Four Dots Unicode Character

U+205E "⁞" Vertical Four Dots is a typographic symbol consisting of four small dots stacked in a vertical line, primarily used as a punctuation mark in ancient and medieval manuscripts to indicate a pause, break, or transition between sections of text. In modern contexts, it occasionally appears in specialized fields such as linguistics or computer science, where it can serve as a delimiter in data notation or as a visual separator in code and diagrams, though it remains a rare and niche character outside of historical or technical documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+205E
Version Added	4.1
Name	Vertical Four Dots
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 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x205E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000205E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u205e

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