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In my highschool typing classes, 40 years ago, I remember seeing this symbol used to indicate omitted paragraphs ... in the same way that the ... is used to indicate a pause between sentences, the vertical version indicates a pause between paragraphs.

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Like this.

But .. I can't seem to find online examples. Its a terrifically difficult character to search for ..



That symbol is called an ellipsis when used to indicate a pause - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

If you search by this term you can get unicode characters for both the horizontal and vertical versions.


This is called the "vertical ellipsis", if that helps. It's rarely used but there's some discussion of it in the article.




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