Unicode Character "‧" (U+2027)

The character ‧ (Hyphenation Point) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2027. It is encoded in the General Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ‧.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Hyphenation Point
Unicode Codepoint U+2027
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+2027 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‧
HTML (hex) ‧
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%80%A7
CSS \002027
JavaScript, JSON \u2027
C, C++, Java \u2027
Python \u2027
Rust \u{2027}
Ruby \u2027

How to type "‧"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 2 7. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 2 7. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ‧
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ‧
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ‧
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0xA7
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2027
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002027

References