Word Separator Middle Dot

U+2E31

About Word Separator Middle Dot

Word Separator Middle Dot is the Unicode character ⸱ at codepoint U+2E31 in the Supplemental Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Word Separator Middle Dot

To use the Word Separator Middle Dot symbol (⸱) in HTML, insert the entity ⸱ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⸱ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2E31';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2E31' evaluates to ⸱. In Python source, write '\u2E31'.

The character encodes to E2 B8 B1 as UTF-8 bytes and 2E31 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 11825.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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