Vertical Ellipsis ⋮
Symbol Meaning
The diagonal and vertical forms of the ellipsis are particularly useful for showing missing terms in matrices, such as the size-n identity matrix:
The symbol “Vertical Ellipsis” is included in the “Matrix ellipses” subblock of the “Mathematical Operators” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Vertical Ellipsis |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ⋮ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Mathematical Operators |
| Unicode Subblock | Matrix ellipses |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 22EE |
| Simple case change | 22EE |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 8B AE | 226 139 174 | 14846894 | 11100010 10001011 10101110 |
| UTF-16BE | 22 EE | 34 238 | 8942 | 00100010 11101110 |
| UTF-16LE | EE 22 | 238 34 | 60962 | 11101110 00100010 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 22 EE | 0 0 34 238 | 8942 | 00000000 00000000 00100010 11101110 |
| UTF-32LE | EE 22 00 00 | 238 34 0 0 | 3995205632 | 11101110 00100010 00000000 00000000 |