U+2024 "․" One Dot Leader Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2024 "․" One Dot Leader is a typographic symbol that consists of a single centered dot, distinct from both the period or full stop used for sentence endings and the decimal point used in numbers. It is primarily employed in written text to indicate a pause or break in thought, similar to an ellipsis but with only one dot, and is sometimes used in tables of contents or lists as a leader to align columns of text. This character belongs to the General Punctuation block of Unicode and is classified as a punctuation mark, specifically a connector punctuation, offering a subtle visual cue for separation or continuation without the full stop's finality.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2024 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | One Dot Leader |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "." U+002E Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ․ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ․ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2024 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002024 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2024 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Inseparable |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "." U+002E Full Stop |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "." U+002E Full Stop |
| 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 |