… is the Unicode character HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS, code point U+2026 (decimal 8230) in the General Punctuation block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write …, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 80 A6.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+2026 |
| Decimal | 8230 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 A6 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 2026 |
| UTF-32 | 00002026 |
| HTML decimal | … |
| HTML hex | … |
| HTML named | … … |
| CSS | \2026 |
| JavaScript | \u2026 |
| JSON | \u2026 |
| Python | \u2026 |
| Python by name | \N{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} |
| Java, C# | \u2026 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{2026} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u2026 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%80%A6 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS |
| Code point | U+2026 (decimal 8230) |
| Block | General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F) |
| General category | Po: Other punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS has a compatibility decomposition (compat) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in General Punctuation
- „ U+201E Double Low-9 Quotation Mark
- ‟ U+201F Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
- † U+2020 Dagger
- ‡ U+2021 Double Dagger
- • U+2022 Bullet
- ‣ U+2023 Triangular Bullet
- ․ U+2024 One Dot Leader
- ‥ U+2025 Two Dot Leader
- ‧ U+2027 Hyphenation Point
- U+2028 Line Separator
- U+2029 Paragraph Separator
- U+202A Left-To-Right Embedding
- U+202B Right-To-Left Embedding
- U+202C Pop Directional Formatting
- U+202D Left-To-Right Override
- U+202E Right-To-Left Override
All 111 characters: General Punctuation.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for …?
- Use the named entity …, or … (decimal) or … (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+2026?
- E2 80 A6 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%80%A6.
- How do I write U+2026 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u2026. Python: \u2026.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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