U+FE30 "︰" Presentation Form for Vertical Two Dot Leader Unicode Character

U+FE30 "︰" Presentation Form for Vertical Two Dot Leader is a punctuation mark used primarily in East Asian typography, where it functions as a vertical variant of the standard two-dot leader (which is typically a sequence of two dots used to indicate a pause or to connect items in horizontal text). In vertical writing modes, such as traditional Chinese or Japanese text arranged in columns, this character replaces the horizontal two-dot leader to maintain proper visual alignment, appearing as two vertically stacked dots rather than horizontally placed ones. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Forms block and is encoded specifically for compatibility with pre-existing vertical text rendering standards, ensuring that the visual structure of vertical scripts remains consistent when leaders are employed for formatting purposes like table of contents entries or decorative spacing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE30
Version Added	1.1
Name	Presentation Form for Vertical Two Dot Leader
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Vertical Two Dot Leader
Block	CJK Compatibility Forms
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Vertical
Decomposition Mapping	"‥" U+2025 Two Dot Leader

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	︰
HTML Hex Encoding	︰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB8 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE30
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE30
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe30

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"." U+002E Full Stop "." U+002E Full Stop
NFKC Simple Casefold	"." U+002E Full Stop "." U+002E Full Stop
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other