省略号 (shěng lüè hào) — ellipsis (punctuation mark, written as six dots ……)

Definition

Examples

• 他在短信里写了一句没有说完的话，后面用省略号表示。
  Tā zài duǎn xìn lǐ xiě le yí jù méi yǒu shuō wán de huà, hòu miàn yòng shěng lüè hào biǎo shì.
  He wrote an unfinished sentence in the text message and used an ellipsis at the end.
• 引用时要删除部分文字，可以用省略号代替。
  Yǐn yòng shí yào shān chú bù fen wén zì, kě yǐ yòng shěng lüè hào dài tì.
  When quoting, you can use an ellipsis to replace deleted text.
• 这篇文章里省略号用得太多，读起来不流畅。
  Zhè piān wén zhāng lǐ shěng lüè hào yòng dé tài duō, dú qǐ lái bù liú chàng.
  This article uses too many ellipses, making it read less fluently.