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The ellipsis (/ ə ˈ l ɪ p s ɪ s /, plural ellipses; from Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, lit. ' leave out ' [1]), rendered ..., alternatively described as suspension points [2]: 19 /dots, points [2]: 19 /periods of ellipsis, or ellipsis points, [2]: 19 or colloquially, dot-dot-dot, [3] [4] is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots.
(non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus (the most common of the slash symbols ...
U+20DB ⃛ COMBINING THREE DOTS ABOVE character is a combining diacritical mark for symbols. When used after U+0020 SPACE, it is used in mathematical notations (and represented with the "tdot" or "TripleDot" entities in HTML 5.0 and MathML 3.0) In music notation, a triple-dotted note is a note with three dots written after it
The numerals are made up of three symbols: zero (a shell), [1] one (a dot) and five (a bar). For example, thirteen is written as three dots in a horizontal row above two horizontal bars; sometimes it is also written as three vertical dots to the left of two vertical bars. With these three symbols, each of the twenty vigesimal digits could be ...
SOGDIAN PUNCTUATION TWO VERTICAL BARS U+10F55: Po, other Sogdian བ SOGDIAN PUNCTUATION TWO VERTICAL BARS WITH DOTS U+10F56: Po, other Sogdian བྷ SOGDIAN PUNCTUATION CIRCLE WITH DOT U+10F57: Po, other Sogdian མ SOGDIAN PUNCTUATION TWO CIRCLES WITH DOTS U+10F58: Po, other Sogdian ཙ SOGDIAN PUNCTUATION HALF CIRCLE WITH DOT U+10F59: Po ...
Three variants of obelus glyphs. The dagger symbol originated from a variant of the obelus, originally depicted by a plain line − or a line with one or two dots ÷. [7] It represented an iron roasting spit, a dart, or the sharp end of a javelin, [8] symbolizing the skewering or cutting out of dubious matter.
The Unicode names of braille dot patterns are not the same as what many English speakers would use colloquially. In particular, Unicode names use the word dots in the plural even when only one dot is listed: thus Unicode says braille pattern dots-5 when most English-speaking users of braille would simply say "braille dot 5" or just "dot 5".
More commonly used dinkuses are three dots or three asterisks in a horizontal row. [8] [9] A small black and white drawing or a fleuron ( ) may be used for the same purpose. [10] [9] Otherwise, an extra space between paragraphs is used. A dinkus may be used in conjunction with the extra space to mark a smaller subdivision than a sub-chapter.