diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
index 3e5fae8fb..564d4e417 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
@@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ inlineCommands = M.fromList $
   , ("textbf", extractSpaces strong <$> tok)
   , ("textnormal", extractSpaces (spanWith ("",["nodecor"],[])) <$> tok)
   , ("ldots", lit "…")
+  , ("vdots", lit "\8942")
   , ("dots", lit "…")
   , ("mdots", lit "…")
   , ("sim", lit "~")
diff --git a/test/command/dots.md b/test/command/dots.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08bc561a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/dots.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+```
+% pandoc -f latex -t native
+\dots
+
+\ldots
+
+\vdots
+^D
+[Para [Str "\8230"]
+,Para [Str "\8230"]
+,Para [Str "\8942"]]
+```