U+FE45 "﹅" Sesame Dot Unicode Character

U+FE45 "﹅" Sesame Dot is a small, vertically oriented punctuation mark that resembles a single sesame seed, used primarily in traditional Chinese and Japanese typography as a type of emphasis or annotation dot. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Forms block, where it serves as a vertical variant of the horizontal dot, often employed to highlight text or indicate a pause in classical East Asian writing systems. Its name derives from its visual similarity to a sesame seed, and it complements its counterpart U+FE46, the horizontal Sesame Dot, providing directional versatility in historical and contemporary multilingual documents.