What is the difference between Aegean Word Separator Dot and Middle Dot?

Aegean Word Separator Dot is U+10101 in the Aegean Numbers block. Middle Dot is U+00B7 in the Latin-1 Supplement block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Aegean Word Separator Dot?

The HTML entity for Aegean Word Separator Dot (U+10101) is 𐄁.

What is the HTML entity for Middle Dot?

The HTML entity for Middle Dot (U+00B7) is ·.

Are Aegean Word Separator Dot and Middle Dot the same Unicode character?

No. Aegean Word Separator Dot is U+10101 (decimal 65793) and Middle Dot is U+00B7 (decimal 183). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Aegean Word Separator Dot and Middle Dot?

Aegean Word Separator Dot (U+10101) encodes as F0 90 84 81 in UTF-8. Middle Dot (U+00B7) encodes as C2 B7 in UTF-8.

Aegean Word Separator Dot vs Middle Dot

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

𐄁

Aegean Word Separator Dot

U+10101

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Middle Dot

U+00B7

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Property Comparison

Property	Aegean Word Separator Dot	Middle Dot
Codepoint	`U+10101`	`U+00B7`
Decimal	`65793`	`183`
HTML Entity	`𐄁`	`·`
HTML Decimal	`𐄁`	`·`
HTML Hex	`𐄁`	`·`
UTF-8	`F0 90 84 81`	`C2 B7`
UTF-16	`D8 00 DD 01`	`00 B7`
UTF-32	`00010101`	`000000B7`
CSS Escape	`\10101`	`\B7`
JS Escape	`\uD800\uDD01`	`\u00B7`
Python Escape	`\U00010101`	`\u00B7`
URL Encoded	`%F0%90%84%81`	`%C2%B7`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`Aegean Numbers`	`Latin-1 Supplement`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`4.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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