U+2022 Bullet
U+2022 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block General Punctuation 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 black small circle.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2022 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “bullet” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bullet, dot.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. For example:
- Point 1
- Point 2
- Point 3
The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond or arrow. Typical word processor software offers a wide selection of shapes and colors. Several regular symbols, such as * (asterisk), - (hyphen), . (period), and even o (lowercase Latin letter O), are conventionally used in ASCII-only text or other environments where bullet characters are not available. Historically, the index symbol ☞ (representing a hand with a pointing index finger) was popular for similar uses.
Lists made with bullets are called bulleted lists. The HTML element name for a bulleted list is "unordered list", because the list items are not arranged in numerical order (as they would be in a numbered list). Usually, bullet points are used to list things.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8226 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 A2 |
| UTF-16 | 20 22 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 22 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%A2 |
| HTML hex reference | • |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | • |
| HTML named entity | • |
| HTML named entity | • |
| alias | black small circle |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | A5 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-874 (hex bytes) | 95 |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | A5 |
| LATEX | \textbullet |
| AGL: Latin-1 | bullet |
| AGL: Latin-2 | bullet |
| AGL: Latin-3 | bullet |
| AGL: Latin-4 | bullet |
| AGL: Latin-5 | bullet |
| Adobe Glyph List | bullet |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BULLET | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Bullet | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullet | |
| Bullet | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullet | |
| Bullet | |
| Bullet | |
| Bullet | |
| Bullet | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullet | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Bullet | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullet | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Bullet | |
| R |