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U+2024 · ONE DOT LEADER

One Dot Leader

  • CodepointU+2024
  • NameONE DOT LEADER
  • Decimal8228
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2024 (․) is ONE DOT LEADER, a punctuation mark in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+002E . (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+002E .. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ․

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 A43 bytes
UTF-1620241 code unit
UTF-32000020244 bytes
HTML decimal&#8228;
HTML hex&#x2024;
CSS\2024in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2024
JSON\u2024
Python\u2024
Python\N{ONE DOT LEADER}by name
Java / C#\u2024
C / C++\u2024universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2024}
Go\u2024
Ruby\u2024
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8228)
URL-encoded%E2%80%A4percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+002E .
NFKDU+002E .
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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.

U+002E.Full Stop U+0660٠Arabic-Indic Digit Zero U+06F0۰Extended Arabic-Indic Digit Zero U+1D16D◌𝅭Musical Symbol Combining Augmentation Dot U+0701܁Syriac Supralinear Full Stop U+0702܂Syriac Sublinear Full Stop U+A4F8ꓸLisu Letter Tone Mya Ti U+A60E꘎Vai Full Stop U+10A50𐩐Kharoshthi Punctuation Dot
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+201E„Double Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201F‟Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+2020†Dagger U+2021‡Double Dagger U+2022•Bullet U+2023‣Triangular Bullet U+2025‥Two Dot Leader U+2026…Horizontal Ellipsis U+2027‧Hyphenation Point U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202ALRELeft-To-Right Embedding