Home: go to the homepage U+25A0 to U+25FF Geometric Shapes
Glyph for U+25D8
Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2

U+25D8 Inverse Bullet

U+25D8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+25A0 to U+25FF Geometric Shapes in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol 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+25D8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

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

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
9688
UTF-8 E2 97 98
UTF-16 25 D8
UTF-32 00 00 25 D8
URL-Quoted %E2%97%98
HTML hex reference ◘
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake â—˜
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 37 9F 31
LATEX \Elzrvbull
Adobe Glyph List bulletinverse
Adobe Glyph List invbullet
digraph Sn

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) INVERSE BULLET
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Geometric Shapes
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse 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+25D8 Inverse 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)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
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+25D8 Inverse Bullet
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+25D8 Inverse 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+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
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+25D8 Inverse Bullet
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U