U+002C "," Comma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+002C "," Comma is a fundamental punctuation mark used across countless writing systems to indicate a brief pause between elements within a sentence, such as items in a list, clauses, or coordinate adjectives. It also serves critical functions in numerical notation, like separating the integer and fractional parts of a number in many cultures, and in technical contexts, such as delimiting function arguments in programming languages. As both a ubiquitous text element and a foundational unit in computer data formatting, the comma is essential for clarity, structure, and parsing in both human and machine communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+002C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Comma |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Common Separator |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | , |
| HTML Hex Encoding | , |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x2C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x002C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000002C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u002c |