TWO DOT PUNCTUATION

Property Value
Codepoint U+205A
Literal Character
Name TWO DOT PUNCTUATION
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block General Punctuation
Subblock Letter
UTF-8 byte encoding e2 81 9a
UTF-16 byte encoding 20 5a (big endian)
HTML Entity ⁚
Perl string literal \x{205A}
Comments
  • historically used to indicate the end of a sentence or change of speaker
  • extends from baseline to cap height
See Also U+FE30: presentation form for vertical two dot leader
U+1015B: greek acrophonic epidaurean two