Bullet vs White Bullet
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | • 2022 | ◦ 25E6 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Bullet | White Bullet |
| Category | Punctuation | Circles & Dots |
| Block | General Punctuation | Geometric Shapes |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2022 | 25E6 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2022 | U+25E6 |
| HTML Decimal | • | ◦ |
| HTML Hex | • | ◦ |
| CSS | \2022 | \25E6 |
| JavaScript | \u{2022} | \u{25E6} |
| Python | \u2022 | \u25e6 |
| UTF-8 | e2 80 a2 | e2 97 a6 |
How to Distinguish
Bullet belongs to Punctuation while White Bullet belongs to Circles & Dots. Despite visual similarity, they serve different purposes.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.