U+3002 "。" Ideographic Full Stop Unicode Character

U+3002 "。" Ideographic Full Stop is a punctuation mark used primarily in East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, to indicate the end of a sentence, functioning similarly to the period in Western scripts. Unlike the small dot of the English full stop, this character appears as a small circle and is positioned at the center of the character space rather than the baseline, aligning with the visual conventions of ideographic text. It is essential for proper written communication in these languages, where it clearly separates sentences while maintaining the balanced, square-like appearance of Chinese characters and other scripts that use this mark.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3002
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ideographic Full Stop
Unicode 1.0 Name	Ideographic Period
Block	CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	。
HTML Hex Encoding	。
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x80 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3002
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003002
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3002

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	Close Punctuation
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Mongolian Phags Pa Yi
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Terminal Punctuation	Yes
Sentence Terminal	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Transformed Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	STerm