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U+22C5 · DOT OPERATOR

Dot Operator

CodepointU+22C5
NameDOT OPERATOR
Decimal8901
BlockMathematical Operators (U+2200–U+22FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategorySm — Math Symbol
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 8B 85`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`22C5`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000022C5`	4 bytes
HTML named	`⋅`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`⋅`
HTML hex	`⋅`
CSS	`\22C5`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u22C5`
JSON	`\u22C5`
Python	`\u22C5`
Python	`\N{DOT OPERATOR}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u22C5`
C / C++	`\u22C5`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{22C5}`
Go	`\u22C5`
Ruby	`\u22C5`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8901)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%8B%85`	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+00B7·Middle Dot U+0387·Greek Ano Teleia U+16EB᛫Runic Single Punctuation U+2022•Bullet U+2027‧Hyphenation Point U+2219∙Bullet Operator U+2E31⸱Word Separator Middle Dot U+30FB・Katakana Middle Dot U+FF65･Halfwidth Katakana Middle Dot U+1427ᐧCanadian Syllabics Final Middle Dot U+A78FꞏLatin Letter Sinological Dot U+10101𐄁Aegean Word Separator Dot

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Nearby in Mathematical Operators

All in block →

U+22BF⊿Right Triangle U+22C0⋀N-Ary Logical and U+22C1⋁N-Ary Logical or U+22C2⋂N-Ary Intersection U+22C3⋃N-Ary Union U+22C4⋄Diamond Operator U+22C6⋆Star Operator U+22C7⋇Division Times U+22C8⋈Bowtie U+22C9⋉Left Normal Factor Semidirect Product U+22CA⋊Right Normal Factor Semidirect Product U+22CB⋋Left Semidirect Product