Halfwidth Katakana Middle 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.
Property Comparison
| Property | Halfwidth Katakana Middle Dot | Middle Dot |
|---|---|---|
| Codepoint |
U+FF65
|
U+00B7
|
| Decimal |
65381
|
183
|
| HTML Entity |
･
|
·
|
| HTML Decimal |
･
|
·
|
| HTML Hex |
･
|
·
|
| UTF-8 |
EF BD A5
|
C2 B7
|
| UTF-16 |
FF 65
|
00 B7
|
| UTF-32 |
0000FF65
|
000000B7
|
| CSS Escape |
\FF65
|
\B7
|
| JS Escape |
\uFF65
|
\u00B7
|
| Python Escape |
\uFF65
|
\u00B7
|
| URL Encoded |
%EF%BD%A5
|
%C2%B7
|
| Category |
Other Punctuation (Po)
|
Other Punctuation (Po)
|
| Block |
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
|
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.
Common Comparisons
Frequently confused character pairs.
Em Dash vs En Dash
2014 / 2013
Hyphen-Minus vs Minus Sign
002D / 2212
Copyright vs Sound Recording Copyright
00A9 / 2117
Latin A vs Greek Alpha
0041 / 0391
Degree Sign vs Masculine Ordinal
00B0 / 00BA
Left vs Right Single Quotation Mark
2018 / 2019
Left vs Right Double Quotation Mark
201C / 201D
Multiplication Sign vs Letter x
00D7 / 0078
Right Quotation Mark vs Apostrophe
2019 / 0027
Horizontal Ellipsis vs Three Dots
2026 / 0020