About Dot Symbol

Why this site exists

Most dot symbols are missing from a standard keyboard, yet they show up everywhere: a bullet in a slide, a middle dot in a bio, an ellipsis in a quotation, a circled dot in a math note. Searching for one usually leads to a page that shows a wall of characters without saying what they are, which code point they use or how to type them.

This site takes the opposite approach. Every symbol has a round one-click copy tile, a category page with the whole family, and its own page with the official Unicode name, code point, HTML entity, CSS and JavaScript escapes, UTF-8 bytes and keyboard routes. The goal is simple: find the dot, understand it, copy it, move on.

What is on the site

156 dot symbols in 9 categories: bullet points, middle dots, circles, math dots, ellipses & marks, braille dots, dice, dot emoji, punctuation. There are also two browser tools — a dot separator builder and a bullet list maker — and three practical guides to typing, meaning and aesthetic use.

How the data is checked

The dataset is generated from a curated list of characters. Each one is validated as a single Unicode code point; its official name and block come from the Unicode Character Database; HTML values are resolved against the HTML named-character table; and the CSS, JavaScript, Python, UTF-8 and URL forms are computed from the code point rather than typed by hand.

That matters because dot symbols are easy to mix up. The bullet •, the middle dot · and the dot operator ⋅ look almost identical at small sizes but have different names, code points and jobs. Generating the codes removes a whole class of typos, and a correction can be applied across every page at once.

The prose combines hand-written intros for the most-used symbols with descriptions generated from each character’s Unicode name, block and documented usage. Claims stay close to documented uses: language-specific punctuation, standard mathematical notation, the Braille cell layout and the HTML entities that are actually defined.

Privacy, accessibility and independence

The site is static. Copying runs in your browser, the tools run locally and there are no analytics or advertising scripts. You can read the details in the privacy policy. The copy buttons are real buttons with accessible names, the layout works at phone widths, and the site respects reduced-motion settings.

Dot Symbol is an independent reference. It is not affiliated with the Unicode Consortium or with any of the platforms whose emoji fonts are mentioned. Unicode character names are factual data; the descriptions, guides and site design are original work.