Ellipsis symbol
Type :dots: · Punctuation
Unicode name Horizontal Ellipsis · General Punctuation block · added in Unicode 1.1, 1993
What … is for
Three dots as a single character, which is the point: typed as one glyph it cannot be broken across a line, and the spacing stays even. Marks an omission in a quote, or a thought that trails off. Three separate periods look almost right and behave worse.
How to type …
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:dots: in any text field instead, which
is the same on every platform.
macOS
Option + Semicolon
Windows
Alt + 0133
Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.
Shortcodes
:dots: :ellipsis: On the web
HTML …
Unicode U+2026
JavaScript '\u{2026}'
CSS "\2026"
Python '\u2026'
URL %E2%80%A6
What … gets mistaken for
three periods
What most people type. It can wrap mid-ellipsis at the end of a line, which the single character never does.
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