Home U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin
Glyph for U+002E
Source: Noto Sans

U+002E Full Stop

U+002E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0000 to U+007F Basic Latin in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as period, dot and decimal point.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Narrow East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Common Separator and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 35 other glyphs. In text U+002E behaves as Infix Numeric Separator regarding line breaks. It has type Alphabetic Terminal for sentence and MidNumLet for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “period” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dot, full stop, period.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 46
UTF-8 2E
UTF-16 00 2E
UTF-32 00 00 00 2E
URL-Quoted %2E
HTML hex reference .
HTML named entity .
alias period
alias dot
alias decimal point
AGL: Latin-1 period
AGL: Latin-2 period
AGL: Latin-3 period
AGL: Latin-4 period
AGL: Latin-5 period
Adobe Glyph List period
digraph .

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Confusables

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name FULL STOP
Unicode 1 Name PERIOD
Block Basic Latin
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Common Separator
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Case Folding Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✘
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✔
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✔
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✘
ID Start ✘
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✘
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✔
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Alphabetic Terminal
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✔
Terminal Punctuation ✔
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break MidNumLet
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✘
XID Start ✘
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Narrow
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Infix Numeric Separator
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+002E Full Stop
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R