U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis
U+2026 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 Compat composition of the glyphs Full Stop, Full Stop, Full Stop. It has a Ambiguous 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+2026 behaves as Inseparable 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 “ellipsis” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dots, ellipsis, 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 Unicode character 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 | |
| Compat | |
| Full Stop Full Stop Full Stop | |
| ✘ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| ✘ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Full Stop Full Stop Full Stop | |
| No | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Inseparable | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Horizontal Ellipsis | |
| R |