U+22EE "⋮" Vertical Ellipsis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+22EE "⋮" Vertical Ellipsis is a typographic symbol consisting of three dots aligned vertically, used to indicate a deliberate omission, a pause, or a continuation in a vertical sequence, such as in mathematical matrices, musical notation, or programming code to represent an unspecified number of rows or elements. It complements its horizontal counterpart (the traditional ellipsis) and is particularly common in technical contexts where vertical alignment is more intuitive, like in tables or notation systems for linear algebra.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+22EE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Vertical Ellipsis |
| Block | Mathematical Operators |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⋮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⋮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8B 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x22EE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000022EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u22ee |
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 | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |