What is the difference between Ideographic Full Stop and Modifier Letter Low Ring?

Ideographic Full Stop is U+3002 in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block. Modifier Letter Low Ring is U+02F3 in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Ideographic Full Stop?

The HTML entity for Ideographic Full Stop (U+3002) is 。.

What is the HTML entity for Modifier Letter Low Ring?

The HTML entity for Modifier Letter Low Ring (U+02F3) is ˳.

Are Ideographic Full Stop and Modifier Letter Low Ring the same Unicode character?

No. Ideographic Full Stop is U+3002 (decimal 12290) and Modifier Letter Low Ring is U+02F3 (decimal 755). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Ideographic Full Stop and Modifier Letter Low Ring?

Ideographic Full Stop (U+3002) encodes as E3 80 82 in UTF-8. Modifier Letter Low Ring (U+02F3) encodes as CB B3 in UTF-8.

Ideographic Full Stop vs Modifier Letter Low Ring

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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Ideographic Full Stop

U+3002

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Modifier Letter Low Ring

U+02F3

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Property Comparison

Property	Ideographic Full Stop	Modifier Letter Low Ring
Codepoint	`U+3002`	`U+02F3`
Decimal	`12290`	`755`
HTML Entity	`。`	`˳`
HTML Decimal	`。`	`˳`
HTML Hex	`。`	`˳`
UTF-8	`E3 80 82`	`CB B3`
UTF-16	`30 02`	`02 F3`
UTF-32	`00003002`	`000002F3`
CSS Escape	`\3002`	`\2F3`
JS Escape	`\u3002`	`\u02F3`
Python Escape	`\u3002`	`\u02F3`
URL Encoded	`%E3%80%82`	`%CB%B3`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Modifier Symbol (Sk)`
Block	`CJK Symbols and Punctuation`	`Spacing Modifier Letters`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`4.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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