Middle Dot vs Z Notation Spot
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Property Comparison
| Property | · 00B7 | ⦁ 2981 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Middle Dot | Z Notation Spot |
| Category | Punctuation | Circles & Dots |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Math Symbol (Sm) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 00B7 | 2981 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+00B7 | U+2981 |
| HTML Decimal | · | ⦁ |
| HTML Hex | · | ⦁ |
| CSS | \00B7 | \2981 |
| JavaScript | \u{B7} | \u{2981} |
| Python | \u00b7 | \u2981 |
| UTF-8 | c2 b7 | e2 a6 81 |
How to Distinguish
Middle Dot belongs to Punctuation while Z Notation Spot 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.