⁞


⁞ U+205E, ⁞
VERTICAL FOUR DOTS
← ⁝
[U+205D] 		General Punctuation   →
[U+205F]

Translingual

Description

Four dots arranged in a vertical line, extending the entire height of the line.[1]

Symbol

⁞

  1. (lexicography) Indicates a legal but undesirable location for a word break.[1]
  2. (lexicography) Indicates places where there is a syllable, but no allowable break.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf#page=6 , codepoint 205E
  2. ^ https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-6/#G20622 "Some dictionaries use a character that looks like a vertical series of four dots to indicate places where there is a syllable, but no allowable break, as for example, a⁞⁠plomb or hoar⁞⁠y. This convention can be represented by U+205E VERTICAL FOUR DOTS. To hint that this punctuation mark should not itself be an opportunity for a line break, it can be followed by U+2060 WORD JOINER."

Ancient Greek

Symbol

⁞

  1. A word divider.[1]

References

  1. ^ Punctuation, archived November 20, 2014, at https://web.archive.org/web/20141120120157/http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/punctuation.html, from the original, now-defunct web page http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/punctuation.html
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