U+30FB Katakana Middle Dot
U+30FB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+30FB prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “katakana middle dot” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dot, dots, interpunct, katakana, middle, middot.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An interpunct ·, also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (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.
The multiplication dot or "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: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 45 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 A6 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A1 A4 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 39 A7 39 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 21 24 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 26 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 26 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 26 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 26 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 26 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 26 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 45 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 45 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 45 |
| 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 | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Middle Dot | |
| 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 |