U+204C Black Leftwards Bullet
U+204C was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. 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 glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+204C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
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 |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8268 |
| UTF-8 | E2 81 8C |
| UTF-16 | 20 4C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 4C |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%81%8C |
| HTML hex reference | ⁌ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⌠|
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 A9 36 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.0 (1999) | |
| BLACK LEFTWARDS BULLET | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Yes | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Black Leftwards Bullet | |
| R |