U+002E "." Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+002E "." Full Stop is a fundamental punctuation mark that represents the end of a sentence in written English and many other languages, serving as a critical element for clarity and structure in text. It is derived from the classical Latin period and has been standardized in ASCII and Unicode for consistent digital representation across all platforms and fonts. This character is also used in various technical contexts, such as decimal points in numbers, file extensions in filenames, and domain names in web addresses, demonstrating its versatility beyond simple grammatical function.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+002E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Full Stop |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Period |
| 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 | 0x2E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x002E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000002E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u002e |