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Bullet

U+2022 · General Punctuation

Meaning and uses

The round bullet point. It is the neatest way to make a list in a bio or caption, and it works as a separator between words: art • music • travel.

Unicode details

• is the Unicode character named BULLET, code point U+2022, in the General Punctuation block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as punctuation (general category Po).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Unicode nameBULLET
Code pointU+2022
BlockGeneral Punctuation
AddedUnicode 1.1 (1993)
UTF-8 bytesE2 80 A2
UTF-162022
HTML• or •

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How to type •

  • On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
  • In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 2022 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into •.
  • On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “bullet”.
  • On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2022, then Space or Enter.
  • In HTML, use • or •. In a CSS content property, use "\2022".

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