U+2E31 Word Separator Middle Dot
U+2E31 was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block Supplemental Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Avestan, Carian, Georgian, Old Hungarian, Kaithi, Lydian, Samaritan.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2E31 offers a line break opportunity after its position. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In punctuation, a word divider is a form of glyph which separates written words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, as well as other scripts of Europe and West Asia, the word divider is a blank space, or whitespace. This convention is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa, where words are usually written without word separation.
In character encoding, word segmentation depends on which characters are defined as word dividers.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 11825 |
| UTF-8 | E2 B8 B1 |
| UTF-16 | 2E 31 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 2E 31 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%B8%B1 |
| HTML hex reference | ⸱ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⸱ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 38 F5 39 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 5.2 (2009) | |
| WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT | |
| — | |
| Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| ✘ | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| ✘ | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Yes | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Break After | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Word Separator Middle Dot | |
| Avestan Carian Georgian Old Hungarian Kaithi Lydian Samaritan | |
| R |