Vertical Four Dots
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Vertical Four Dots 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+205E
About this symbol
⁞, four dots in a column, is used in some dictionaries to show a place where a word may be broken across lines, though it is better not to.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- VERTICAL FOUR DOTS
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Archaic punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 4.1 (2005)
- Unicode notes
- Used in dictionaries to indicate legal but undesirable word break
- Glyph extends the whole height of the line
- Related
- ⸽ Vertical Six Dots U+2E3D
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