What is the difference between Bullet Operator and Middle Dot?

Bullet Operator is U+2219 in the Mathematical Operators 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 Operator?

The HTML entity for Bullet Operator (U+2219) is ∙.

What is the HTML entity for Middle Dot?

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

Are Bullet Operator and Middle Dot the same Unicode character?

No. Bullet Operator is U+2219 (decimal 8729) and Middle Dot is U+00B7 (decimal 183). They are separate codepoints.

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

Bullet Operator (U+2219) encodes as E2 88 99 in UTF-8. Middle Dot (U+00B7) encodes as C2 B7 in UTF-8.

Bullet Operator 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.

∙

Bullet Operator

U+2219

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Middle Dot

U+00B7

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Property Comparison

Property	Bullet Operator	Middle Dot
Codepoint	`U+2219`	`U+00B7`
Decimal	`8729`	`183`
HTML Entity	`∙`	`·`
HTML Decimal	`∙`	`·`
HTML Hex	`∙`	`·`
UTF-8	`E2 88 99`	`C2 B7`
UTF-16	`22 19`	`00 B7`
UTF-32	`00002219`	`000000B7`
CSS Escape	`\2219`	`\B7`
JS Escape	`\u2219`	`\u00B7`
Python Escape	`\u2219`	`\u00B7`
URL Encoded	`%E2%88%99`	`%C2%B7`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`Mathematical Operators`	`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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