VERTICAL FOUR DOTS

Codepoint
U+205E
Literal Character
Name
VERTICAL FOUR DOTS
Sketch
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Control Character
no
Subblock
Archaic punctuation
UTF-8 byte encoding
e2 81 9e
UTF-16 byte encoding
20 5e (big endian)
HTML Entity
⁞
Perl string literal
\x{205E}
Comments
  • used in dictionaries to indicate legal but undesirable word break
  • glyph extends the whole height of the line
See Also
U+2E3D: vertical six dots