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Glyph for U+22EE
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U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis

U+22EE was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2200 to U+22FF Mathematical Operators in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+22EE behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “vertical ellipsis” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ellipsis, mathematics.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The ellipsis ... (; also known informally as dot dot dot) is a series of dots that indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning. The plural is ellipses. The term originates from the Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis meaning 'leave out'.

Opinions differ as to how to render ellipses in printed material. According to The Chicago Manual of Style, it should consist of three periods, each separated from its neighbor by a non-breaking space: . . .. According to the AP Stylebook, the periods should be rendered with no space between them: .... A third option is to use the Unicode character U+2026 … HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS.

Representations

System Representation
8942
UTF-8 E2 8B AE
UTF-16 22 EE
UTF-32 00 00 22 EE
URL-Quoted %E2%8B%AE
HTML hex reference ⋮
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake â‹®
HTML named entity ⋮
LATEX \vdots
Adobe Glyph List ellipsisvertical
digraph :3

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name VERTICAL ELLIPSIS
Unicode 1 Name
Block Mathematical Operators
General Category Math Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Case Folding Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R