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Glyph for U+2022
Source: Noto Sans

U+2022 Bullet

U+2022 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation 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 black small circle.

The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2022 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “bullet” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: 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:
 Item 1
 Item 2
 Item 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).

Representations

System Representation
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) BULLET
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) General Punctuation
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2022 Bullet
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R