U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis
U+2026 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as three dot leader.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Full Stop, Full Stop, Full Stop. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2026 allows only line breaks, if an additional space character is present. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “ellipsis” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dots, omission.
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 composed glyph U+2026 … HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8230 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 A6 |
| UTF-16 | 20 26 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 26 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%A6 |
| HTML hex reference | … |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | … |
| HTML named entity | … |
| HTML named entity | … |
| alias | three dot leader |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 C4 |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | C9 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-874 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | C9 |
| LATEX | \ldots |
| AGL: Latin-1 | ellipsis |
| AGL: Latin-2 | ellipsis |
| AGL: Latin-3 | ellipsis |
| AGL: Latin-4 | ellipsis |
| AGL: Latin-5 | ellipsis |
| Adobe Glyph List | ellipsis |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Full Stop Full Stop Full Stop | |
| ✘ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| ✘ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Full Stop Full Stop Full Stop | |
| No | |
| Full Stop Full Stop Full Stop | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Inseparable | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| R |