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How is an ellipsis 省略号 written in Chinese?

。。。

...

or

......

The only reference I can find on this is this word reference forum which states ....... This also says 6 dots.

E.g.,

在這裡輸入您的訊息...... （Type your message here...）

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Six dots.

It is called 刪節號 in Taiwan, and 省略号 in China. Both use 6 dots.

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  • Is it 6 periods or 2 "ellipsis marks" that take up the space of two characters?
    – user3871
    Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 21:07
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    U+2026 …… In Chinese, the ellipsis is six dots (in two groups of three dots, occupying the same horizontal or vertical space as two characters).
    – SLS
    Commented Apr 4, 2017 at 4:45
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the formal type is ……and somtimes we use ... or 。。。to express the same meaning

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All are wrong. Three dots "…" is one single character in Chinese font, like the comment by @SLS under his answer. It's not correct to written to six English dots, or three Chinese period marks.

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The last one is right，we use 6 dots in china，“。。。”is just three “。” sometimes will be used to have a chat online

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