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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Infix Numeric Separator
East Asian Width Narrow
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Terminal Punctuation Yes
Sentence Terminal Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Mid Num Let
Sentence Break ATerm