Horizontal ellipsis

Meaning and uses

Three dots as a single character. It marks a pause or something left unsaid, and it takes less room than three full stops in a short bio.

Unicode details

… is the Unicode character named HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS, code point U+2026, in the General Punctuation block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as punctuation (general category Po).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type …

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 2026 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ….
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “horizontal ellipsis”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2026, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use … or …. In a CSS content property, use "\2026".