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U+30FB · KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT

Katakana Middle Dot

CodepointU+30FB
NameKATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
Decimal12539
BlockKatakana (U+30A0–U+30FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthW — Wide
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E3 83 BB`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`30FB`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000030FB`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`・`
HTML hex	`・`
CSS	`\30FB`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u30FB`
JSON	`\u30FB`
Python	`\u30FB`
Python	`\N{KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u30FB`
C / C++	`\u30FB`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{30FB}`
Go	`\u30FB`
Ruby	`\u30FB`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(12539)`
URL-encoded	`%E3%83%BB`	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+22C5⋅Dot Operator U+2E31⸱Word Separator 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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Characters built on ・

U+FF65･Halfwidth Katakana Middle Dot

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Nearby in Katakana

All in block →

U+30F5ヵKatakana Letter Small Ka U+30F6ヶKatakana Letter Small Ke U+30F7ヷKatakana Letter Va U+30F8ヸKatakana Letter Vi U+30F9ヹKatakana Letter Ve U+30FAヺKatakana Letter Vo U+30FCーKatakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark U+30FDヽKatakana Iteration Mark U+30FEヾKatakana Voiced Iteration Mark U+30FFヿKatakana Digraph Koto