MIDDLE DOT

Codepoint
U+00B7
Literal Character
·
Name
MIDDLE DOT
Sketch
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
........
Aliases
midpoint (in typography)
Georgian comma
Greek middle dot (ano teleia)
Control Character
no
Subblock
Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding
c2 b7
UTF-16 byte encoding
00 b7 (big endian)
HTML Entity
·
Perl string literal
\x{B7}
Comments
  • also used as a raised decimal point or to denote multiplication; for multiplication 22C5 is preferred
  • used as a vowel length mark (part of words) in many Amerindian orthographies
See Also
U+002E: full stop
U+02D9: dot above
U+0387: greek ano teleia
U+2022: bullet
U+2024: one dot leader
U+2027: hyphenation point
U+2219: bullet operator
U+22C5: dot operator
U+2E31: word separator middle dot
U+2E33: raised dot
U+30FB: katakana middle dot
U+A78F: latin letter sinological dot