U+205E "⁞" Vertical Four Dots Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Vertical Four Dots
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common