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U+2043 CHARACTER

HYPHEN BULLET

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HYPHEN BULLET
Code Point U+2043
Decimal Value 8259
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 81 83
UTF-16 Code Unit 2043
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002043
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 43 LE: 43 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 43 LE: 43 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ⁃
HTML Hexadecimal ⁃
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002043
JavaScript (ES6) \u2043
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2043
JSON Escape \u2043
Python \u2043
PHP "\u{2043}"
Java "\u2043"
C / C++ "\u2043"
Rust '\u{2043}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%81%83

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+2043 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 HYPHEN BULLET

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

Identifier U+2043

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