U+2026 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 Glyph for U+002E Full Stop, Glyph for U+002E Full Stop, Glyph for U+002E 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
- Glyph for U+FE19 Presentation Form for Vertical Horizontal Ellipsis
Confusables
- Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
- Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
- Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
---|---|
1.1 (1993) | |
HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS | |
— | |
General Punctuation | |
Other Punctuation | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
compatibility | |
Glyph for U+002E Full Stop Glyph for U+002E Full Stop Glyph for U+002E Full Stop | |
✘ | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
✘ | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
Glyph for U+002E Full Stop Glyph for U+002E Full Stop Glyph for U+002E Full Stop | |
No | |
Glyph for U+002E Full Stop Glyph for U+002E Full Stop Glyph for U+002E Full Stop | |
No | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
None | |
ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Inseparable | |
none | |
not a number | |
Glyph for U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis | |
R |