Unicode Character "⁃" (U+2043)

The character ⁃ (Hyphen Bullet) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2043. 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 Hyphen Bullet
Unicode Codepoint U+2043
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+2043 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ⁃
HTML (hex) ⁃
HTML (named) ⁃
URL Escape Code %E2%81%83
CSS \002043
JavaScript, JSON \u2043
C, C++, Java \u2043
Python \u2043
Rust \u{2043}
Ruby \u2043

How to type "⁃"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 4 3. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 4 3. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x81 0x83
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2043
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002043

References