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U+2E31 · WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT

Word Separator Middle Dot

  • CodepointU+2E31
  • NameWORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT
  • Decimal11825
  • BlockSupplemental Punctuation (U+2E00–U+2E7F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version5.2 (2009)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2E31 (⸱) is WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT, a punctuation mark in the Supplemental Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 5.2 (2009).

How to type ⸱

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 B8 B13 bytes
UTF-162E311 code unit
UTF-3200002E314 bytes
HTML decimal⸱
HTML hex⸱
CSS\2E31in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2E31
JSON\u2E31
Python\u2E31
Python\N{WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT}by name
Java / C#\u2E31
C / C++\u2E31universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2E31}
Go\u2E31
Ruby\u2E31
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(11825)
URL-encoded%E2%B8%B1percent-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+22C5⋅Dot Operator 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 Supplemental Punctuation

All in block →
U+2E2B⸫One Dot Over Two Dots Punctuation U+2E2C⸬Squared Four Dot Punctuation U+2E2D⸭Five Dot Mark U+2E2E⸮Reversed Question Mark U+2E2FⸯVertical Tilde U+2E30⸰Ring Point U+2E32⸲Turned Comma U+2E33⸳Raised Dot U+2E34⸴Raised Comma U+2E35⸵Turned Semicolon U+2E36⸶Dagger with Left Guard U+2E37⸷Dagger with Right Guard