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 (, plural ellipses; from Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, lit. 'leave out'), rendered ..., alternatively described as suspension points: 19 /dots, points: 19 /periods of ellipsis, or ellipsis points: 19 , or colloquially, dot-dot-dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots. An ellipsis can be used in many ways, including for intentional omission of text or to imply a concept without using words.
Opinions differ on how to render an ellipsis in printed material and are to some extent based on the technology used for rendering. Many style guides are still influenced by the typewriter. 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 – available in electronic text – is to use the precomposed 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: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A1 4B |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A1 4B |
| Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 63 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A1 4B |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 C4 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 C4 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 C4 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A1 AD |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A1 AD |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A1 AD |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 21 2D 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 44 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 44 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 44 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 44 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 44 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 44 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 21 26 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 36 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | C9 |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | C9 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | C9 |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | C9 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | C9 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | C9 |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | 85 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 63 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 63 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 63 |
| 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 |