Horizontal Ellipsis
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0133 on the numeric keypad to insert horizontal ellipsis.
- Alt code
- Alt+0133
- HTML entity
- …
- Unicode
- U+2026
About this symbol
The ellipsis marks words left out of a quotation, or a sentence trailing away. Typesetters cast it as a single piece of type so the three dots sit evenly spaced, and as one character it can never be split across two lines.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
- Also called
- Three dot leader
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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