Tricolon
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Tricolon has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⁝
- Unicode
- U+205D
About this symbol
The tricolon, three dots one above another, appears in ancient Greek inscriptions as a punctuation mark. Unicode also uses it for the number 3 in the counting signs of inscriptions from Epidaurus, the Greek city of the great theatre and sanctuary of Asclepius.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- TRICOLON
- Also called
- Epidaurean acrophonic symbol three
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Archaic punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 4.1 (2005)
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