What is the difference between Bullet and Middle Dot?

Bullet is U+2022 in the General Punctuation 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 Bullet?

The HTML entity for Bullet (U+2022) is •.

What is the HTML entity for Middle Dot?

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

Are Bullet and Middle Dot the same Unicode character?

No. Bullet is U+2022 (decimal 8226) and Middle Dot is U+00B7 (decimal 183). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Bullet and Middle Dot?

Bullet (U+2022) encodes as E2 80 A2 in UTF-8. Middle Dot (U+00B7) encodes as C2 B7 in UTF-8.

Bullet 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.

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Bullet

U+2022

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Middle Dot

U+00B7

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Property Comparison

Property	Bullet	Middle Dot
Codepoint	`U+2022`	`U+00B7`
Decimal	`8226`	`183`
HTML Entity	`•`	`·`
HTML Decimal	`•`	`·`
HTML Hex	`•`	`·`
UTF-8	`E2 80 A2`	`C2 B7`
UTF-16	`20 22`	`00 B7`
UTF-32	`00002022`	`000000B7`
CSS Escape	`\2022`	`\B7`
JS Escape	`\u2022`	`\u00B7`
Python Escape	`\u2022`	`\u00B7`
URL Encoded	`%E2%80%A2`	`%C2%B7`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`General Punctuation`	`Latin-1 Supplement`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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