U+30FB Katakana Middle Dot
U+30FB was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Katakana in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Bopomofo, Hangul, Han, Hiragana, Katakana, Yi.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide 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+30FB behaves as Nonstarter 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 “katakana middle dot” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dots, interpunct, katakana, katakana middle dot, middot.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An interpunct ⟨·⟩, also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot and centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script. (Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800 CE). It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages and is present in Unicode as U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT.
The multiplication dot (Unicode U+22C5 ⋅ DOT OPERATOR) is frequently used in mathematical and scientific notation, and it may differ in appearance from the interpunct.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12539 |
| UTF-8 | E3 83 BB |
| UTF-16 | 30 FB |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 FB |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%83%BB |
| HTML hex reference | ・ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ・ |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Adobe Glyph List | dotkatakana |
| digraph | .6 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT | |
| — | |
| Katakana | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Nonstarter | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi | |
| U |