Two Dot Punctuation
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Two Dot Punctuation has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⁚
- Unicode
- U+205A
About this symbol
⁚, two dots, was used in old manuscripts to mark the end of a sentence or a change of speaker, before the full stop and quotation marks took over those jobs.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- TWO DOT PUNCTUATION
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Archaic punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 4.1 (2005)
- Unicode notes
- Historically used to indicate the end of a sentence or change of speaker
- Extends from baseline to cap height
- Related
- ︰ Presentation Form For Vertical Two Dot Leader U+FE30𐅛 Greek Acrophonic Epidaurean Two U+1015B
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