U+00B7 "·" Middle Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Middle Dot
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Avestan Carian Coptic Duployan Elbasan Georgian Glagolitic Gunjala Gondi Gothic Greek Han Latin Lydian Mahajani Old Permic Shavian