U+FE52 "﹒" Small Full Stop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE52 "﹒" Small Full Stop is a small variant of the standard full stop or period, belonging to the CJK Compatibility Forms block, where it is intended for use in vertical text layouts or compatibility with older East Asian character sets. Its design mirrors the punctuation used to mark the end of a sentence but in a reduced size, often employed in contexts where a smaller dot is needed for alignment or typographic harmony within Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text. As a compatibility character, it encodes a predefined stylistic alternative rather than a distinct semantic meaning, ensuring that legacy documents can be accurately represented in modern Unicode systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE52 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Small Full Stop |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Small Period |
| Block | Small Form Variants |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Common Separator |
| Decomposition Type | Small |
| Decomposition Mapping | "." U+002E Full Stop |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE52 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe52 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Close Punctuation |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| 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 |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Sentence Terminal | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Mid Num Let |
| Sentence Break | ATerm |