Bullet vs Double Vertical Line
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | • 2022 | ‖ 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Bullet | Double Vertical Line |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | General Punctuation | General Punctuation |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2022 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2022 | U+2016 |
| HTML Decimal | • | ‖ |
| HTML Hex | • | ‖ |
| CSS | \2022 | \2016 |
| JavaScript | \u{2022} | \u{2016} |
| Python | \u2022 | \u2016 |
| UTF-8 | e2 80 a2 | e2 80 96 |
How to Distinguish
Both Bullet and Double Vertical Line belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.