U+22EE Vertical Ellipsis
U+22EE was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
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 |
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Nº | 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 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
VERTICAL ELLIPSIS | |
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Mathematical Operators | |
Math Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
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not a number | |
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R |