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Vertical Four Dots

Group: Punctuation

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About this character

Vertical Four Dots belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+205E. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+205E
Hex
205E
Decimal
8286
HTML
⁞
CSS
\205E
JavaScript
\u205E
Python
\u205E
UTF-8
E2 81 9E

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Related

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.