Two Dot Punctuation

U+205A

About Two Dot Punctuation

Two Dot Punctuation is the Unicode character ⁚ at codepoint U+205A in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Two Dot Punctuation

To use the Two Dot Punctuation symbol (⁚) in HTML, insert the entity ⁚ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⁚ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\205A';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u205A' evaluates to ⁚. In Python source, write '\u205A'.

The character encodes to E2 81 9A as UTF-8 bytes and 205A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8282.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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