U+FE46 "﹆" White Sesame Dot Unicode Character

U+FE46 "﹆" White Sesame Dot is a small, circular punctuation mark used in East Asian typography, particularly within Japanese and Chinese text, to function as a type of repetition or emphasis mark. It often appears in vertical writing systems where it is paired with a White Sesame Dot to indicate that the preceding character, syllable, or word should be read twice or given special attention. Despite its diminutive size, it plays a specific role in traditional typesetting, typically placed below or beside the character it modifies, distinguishing it from the similar Black Sesame Dot which carries a different connotation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE46
Version Added	3.2
Name	White Sesame Dot
Block	CJK Compatibility Forms
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﹆
HTML Hex Encoding	﹆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE46
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe46

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	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other