・ is the Unicode character KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT, code point U+30FB (decimal 12539) in the Katakana block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ・, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E3 83 BB.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+30FB |
| Decimal | 12539 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E3 83 BB |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 30FB |
| UTF-32 | 000030FB |
| HTML decimal | ・ |
| HTML hex | ・ |
| CSS | \30FB |
| JavaScript | \u30FB |
| JSON | \u30FB |
| Python | \u30FB |
| Python by name | \N{KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT} |
| Java, C# | \u30FB |
| Rust, Swift | \u{30FB} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u30FB |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E3%83%BB |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT |
| Code point | U+30FB (decimal 12539) |
| Block | Katakana (U+30A0–U+30FF) |
| General category | Po: Other punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Katakana
- ン U+30F3 Katakana Letter N
- ヴ U+30F4 Katakana Letter Vu
- ヵ U+30F5 Katakana Letter Small Ka
- ヶ U+30F6 Katakana Letter Small Ke
- ヷ U+30F7 Katakana Letter Va
- ヸ U+30F8 Katakana Letter Vi
- ヹ U+30F9 Katakana Letter Ve
- ヺ U+30FA Katakana Letter Vo
- ー U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
- ヽ U+30FD Katakana Iteration Mark
- ヾ U+30FE Katakana Voiced Iteration Mark
- ヿ U+30FF Katakana Digraph Koto
All 96 characters: Katakana.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ・?
- Use ・ (decimal) or ・ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+30FB?
- E3 83 BB (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E3%83%BB.
- How do I write U+30FB in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u30FB. Python: \u30FB.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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