U+002E Full Stop
U+002E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Basic Latin in the 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. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it is written as number separator according to the number it separates. When changing direction it is not mirrored. It can end sentences at appropriate places. U+002E prohibits a line break after it, and before it, too, if preceded by a number. The glyph can be confused with 35 other glyphs.
The CLDR project calls this character “period” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dot, full, stop.
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 |
| Encoding: ASCII (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP737 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP775 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP855 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP856 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP857 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP858 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP860 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP861 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP862 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP863 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP866 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP874 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1125 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_3 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_4 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_5 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_6 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_10 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_11 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_14 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 2E |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1141 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1142 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1143 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1144 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1145 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP838 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | 4B |
| 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 | . |
Related Characters
- One Dot Leader
- Two Dot Leader
- Horizontal Ellipsis
- Digit One Full Stop
- Digit Two Full Stop
- Digit Three Full Stop
- Digit Four Full Stop
- Digit Five Full Stop
- Digit Six Full Stop
- Digit Seven Full Stop
- Digit Eight Full Stop
- Digit Nine Full Stop
- Number Ten Full Stop
- Number Eleven Full Stop
- Number Twelve Full Stop
- Number Thirteen Full Stop
- Number Fourteen Full Stop
- Number Fifteen Full Stop
- Number Sixteen Full Stop
- Number Seventeen Full Stop
- Number Eighteen Full Stop
- Number Nineteen Full Stop
- Number Twenty Full Stop
- Square Am
- Square Co
- Square Pm
- Presentation Form for Vertical Horizontal Ellipsis
- Presentation Form for Vertical Two Dot Leader
- Small Full Stop
- Fullwidth Full Stop
- Digit Zero Full Stop
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| FULL STOP | |
| PERIOD | |
| Basic Latin | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Common Separator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Full Stop | |
| ✘ | |
| Full Stop | |
| Full Stop | |
| ✘ | |
| Full Stop | |
| Full Stop | |
| Full Stop | |
| Full Stop | |
| Full Stop | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Full Stop | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Full Stop | |
| Yes | |
| Full Stop | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Terminal | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| MidNumLet | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Full Stop | |
| None | |
| narrow | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Infix Numeric Separator | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Full Stop | |
| R |