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U+2022 CHARACTER

BULLET

Quick Facts

Unicode Name BULLET
Code Point U+2022
Decimal Value 8226
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 A2
UTF-16 Code Unit 2022
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002022
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 22 LE: 22 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 22 LE: 22 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal •
HTML Hexadecimal •
HTML Named Entity •
CSS Escape \002022
JavaScript (ES6) \u2022
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2022
JSON Escape \u2022
Python \u2022
PHP "\u{2022}"
Java "\u2022"
C / C++ "\u2022"
Rust '\u{2022}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%A2

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2022 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A • Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A • Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A • Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A • Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name BULLET

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2022

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