Hangzhou Numeral Eight vs Middle Dot
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | 〨 3028 | · 00B7 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Hangzhou Numeral Eight | Middle Dot |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Script | Hani | Zyyy |
| General Category | Letter Number (Nl) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | L | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 3028 | 00B7 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+3028 | U+00B7 |
| HTML Decimal | 〨 | · |
| HTML Hex | 〨 | · |
| CSS | \3028 | \00B7 |
| JavaScript | \u{3028} | \u{B7} |
| Python | \u3028 | \u00b7 |
| UTF-8 | e3 80 a8 | c2 b7 |
How to Distinguish
Both Hangzhou Numeral Eight and Middle Dot 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.