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U+2027 · HYPHENATION POINT

Hyphenation Point

  • CodepointU+2027
  • NameHYPHENATION POINT
  • Decimal8231
  • 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+2027 (‧) is HYPHENATION POINT, 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).

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 A73 bytes
UTF-1620271 code unit
UTF-32000020274 bytes
HTML decimal‧
HTML hex‧
CSS\2027in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2027
JSON\u2027
Python\u2027
Python\N{HYPHENATION POINT}by name
Java / C#\u2027
C / C++\u2027universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2027}
Go\u2027
Ruby\u2027
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8231)
URL-encoded%E2%80%A7percent-encoded UTF-8
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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.

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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2021‡Double Dagger U+2022•Bullet U+2023‣Triangular Bullet U+2024․One Dot Leader U+2025‥Two Dot Leader U+2026…Horizontal Ellipsis U+2028U+2028Line Separator U+2029U+2029Paragraph Separator U+202ALRELeft-To-Right Embedding U+202BRLERight-To-Left Embedding U+202CPDFPop Directional Formatting U+202DLROLeft-To-Right Override