VERTICAL FOUR DOTS

Property Value
Codepoint U+205E
Literal Character ⁞
Name VERTICAL FOUR DOTS
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block General Punctuation
Subblock Iota subscript
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