U+22EF "⋯" Midline Horizontal Ellipsis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⋯
U+22EF "⋯" Midline Horizontal Ellipsis is a typographic symbol consisting of three dots aligned to the middle vertical axis of a line of text, designed specifically for mathematical notation to indicate a continuation or omission in a sequence, such as in matrix entries or series, as opposed to the baseline ellipsis commonly used in prose to show trailing off or omitted content in written English.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+22EF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Midline Horizontal 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x22EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000022EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u22ef |
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 | Inseparable |
| 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 |