U+00B7 "·" Middle Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00B7 "·" Middle Dot is a small, vertically centered punctuation mark used in various linguistic and typographic contexts, such as representing a word separator in ancient or modern scripts, serving as a multiplication symbol in mathematics, or indicating a decimal point in some cultures. It also appears in the Catalan language to separate two "l" characters in the digraph "l·l", and is distinct from other similar dots like the interpunct or the period, occupying a specific codepoint in Unicode's Latin-1 Supplement block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00B7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Middle Dot |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | · |
| HTML Hex Encoding | · |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00B7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000B7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00b7 |
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 | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Avestan Carian Coptic Duployan Elbasan Georgian Glagolitic Gunjala Gondi Gothic Greek Han Latin Lydian Mahajani Old Permic Shavian |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| Other ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Extender | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Mid Letter |
| Sentence Break | Other |