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U+FF65 · HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT

Halfwidth Katakana Middle Dot

  • CodepointU+FF65
  • NameHALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
  • Decimal65381
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthH — Halfwidth
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FF65 (･) is HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT, a punctuation mark in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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).

It is a halfwidth form of U+30FB ・ (compatibility decomposition <narrow>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+30FB ・. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ･

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BD A53 bytes
UTF-16FF651 code unit
UTF-320000FF654 bytes
HTML decimal&#65381;
HTML hex&#xFF65;
CSS\FF65in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFF65
JSON\uFF65
Python\uFF65
Python\N{HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT}by name
Java / C#\uFF65
C / C++\uFF65universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FF65}
Go\uFF65
Ruby\uFF65
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65381)
URL-encoded%EF%BD%A5percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+30FB ・
NFKDU+30FB ・
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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+30FB・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 Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FF5F｟Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis U+FF60｠Fullwidth Right White Parenthesis U+FF61｡Halfwidth Ideographic Full Stop U+FF62｢Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket U+FF63｣Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket U+FF64､Halfwidth Ideographic Comma U+FF66ｦHalfwidth Katakana Letter Wo U+FF67ｧHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small A U+FF68ｨHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small I U+FF69ｩHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small U U+FF6AｪHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small E U+FF6BｫHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small O