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U+2043 · HYPHEN BULLET

Hyphen Bullet

CodepointU+2043
NameHYPHEN BULLET
Decimal8259
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 widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 81 83`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2043`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002043`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&hybull;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`⁃`
HTML hex	`⁃`
CSS	`\2043`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2043`
JSON	`\u2043`
Python	`\u2043`
Python	`\N{HYPHEN BULLET}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2043`
C / C++	`\u2043`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2043}`
Go	`\u2043`
Ruby	`\u2043`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8259)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%81%83`	percent-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.

U+002D-Hyphen-Minus U+02D7˗Modifier Letter Minus Sign U+06D4۔Arabic Full Stop U+2010‐Hyphen U+2011‑Non-Breaking Hyphen U+2012‒Figure Dash U+2013–En Dash U+2212−Minus Sign U+2796➖Minus U+FE58﹘Small Em Dash U+2CBAⲺCoptic Capital Letter Dialect-P Ni

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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →

U+203D‽Interrobang U+203E‾Overline U+203F‿Undertie U+2040⁀Character Tie U+2041⁁Caret Insertion Point U+2042⁂Asterism U+2044⁄Fraction Slash U+2045⁅Left Square Bracket with Quill U+2046⁆Right Square Bracket with Quill U+2047⁇Double Question Mark U+2048⁈Question Exclamation Mark U+2049⁉Exclamation Question Mark