Bullet vs Dotted Solidus
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Property Comparison
| Property | • 2022 | ⹊ 2E4A |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Bullet | Dotted Solidus |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | General Punctuation | Supplemental Punctuation |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2022 | 2E4A |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2022 | U+2E4A |
| HTML Decimal | • | ⹊ |
| HTML Hex | • | ⹊ |
| CSS | \2022 | \2E4A |
| JavaScript | \u{2022} | \u{2E4A} |
| Python | \u2022 | \u2e4a |
| UTF-8 | e2 80 a2 | e2 b9 8a |
How to Distinguish
Both Bullet and Dotted Solidus are in the Punctuation category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.