U+2056 "⁖" Three Dot Punctuation Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+2056 "⁖" Three Dot Punctuation is a typographic mark that consists of three vertically aligned dots, distinct from the more common horizontal ellipsis. It is classified under the General Punctuation block and is used in certain historical and scholarly texts, particularly in medieval manuscripts or archaic alphabets, to indicate a pause, a break in thought, or a form of punctuation analogous to a modern colon or semicolon. This character is rarely employed in contemporary writing but remains available in the Unicode standard for precise representation of older or specialized notation systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2056
Name
Three Dot Punctuation
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
⁖
HTML Hex Encoding
⁖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x81 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2056
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002056
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2056
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common