U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT

Middle Dot

CodepointU+00B7
NameMIDDLE DOT
Decimal183
BlockLatin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
MirroredNo

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8	`C2 B7`	2 bytes
UTF-16	`00B7`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000000B7`	4 bytes
HTML named	`·`	named character reference
HTML named	`·`	named character reference
HTML named	`·`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`·`
HTML hex	`·`
CSS	`\B7`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u00B7`
JSON	`\u00B7`
Python	`\u00B7`
Python	`\N{MIDDLE DOT}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u00B7`
C / C++	`\u00B7`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{B7}`
Go	`\u00B7`
Ruby	`\u00B7`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(183)`
URL-encoded	`%C2%B7`	percent-encoded UTF-8

Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.