Five Dot Punctuation

Unicode U+2059 · Category: Punctuation
Character
NameFive Dot Punctuation
Unicode Code PointU+2059
Decimal Value8281
Hex Value0x2059
CategoryPunctuation
Windows Alt CodeNot available — use copy/paste
Word Alt+X Code2059 + Alt+X
Mac ShortcutNot available — use copy/paste
HTML Entity⁙
HTML Code (Dec / Hex)⁙ / ⁙
CSS Content Codecontent: "\2059";
JavaScript Unicode Escape"\u{2059}"

About Five Dot Punctuation

Five Dot Punctuation is a typographic punctuation mark used in professional publishing and formal writing to replace the plain ASCII approximations (like straight quotes or a hyphen) that typewriters were limited to.

Unicode block: General Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F). This block holds the "smart" typographic punctuation — proper quotation marks, en/em dashes, ellipses, and spacing marks — that go beyond what a physical typewriter keyboard could produce.

At Unicode code point U+2059 (decimal 8281), Five Dot Punctuation is the 90th of 111 characters cataloged in this category on How To Type Any Symbol. In terms of typing methods, like most characters outside the 0–255 legacy codepage range, it has no dedicated Alt-code or single-key shortcut on Windows or Mac, so copy-paste is the standard, universal method for typing it. Regardless of platform, clicking the copy button above places the exact character on your clipboard, ready to paste into any application that accepts Unicode text.

💡 Good to know: Most word processors auto-convert the plain ASCII equivalent into this character as you type (a feature usually called "smart" or "curly" quotes/dashes) — check Autocorrect settings if you need to disable that.

How to Type Five Dot Punctuation

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Windows

No alt code available — click the copy button above and paste with Ctrl+V.

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Mac

No dedicated shortcut — click the copy button above and paste with Cmd+V.

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Copy & Paste

Click the symbol above to copy it, then paste anywhere — works on every device and OS.

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Web / HTML

Use the entity ⁙ in your HTML.

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