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Technical information
| Symbol | . | |
| Name | Full stop | |
| Unicode number | U+002E | |
| Category | ASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ., or U+002E, is known as the "Full Stop" in British English or "Period" in American English. It falls under the "Basic Latin" block and the "Punctuation, Other" category in the Unicode standard. It is primarily used at the end of a sentence to indicate its conclusion. In addition to its usage in written language, the full stop or period is also used in mathematics and computer programming. For instance, it can be used to separate the integral and fractional parts of a decimal number, or in many programming languages to access properties or methods of an object. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | . | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | . | |
| HTML Entity (named) | . | |
| URL Escape Code | . | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2E | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x002E | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000002E |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u002E" | |
| CSS Code | \002E | |
| JavaScript | "\u002E" | |
| Perl | \x{002E} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u002E" | |
| Python 3 | \u002E | |
| Ruby | \u{002E} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this . in sentence and in bold like this . and in italic like this ..
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Font size:
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72px
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>.</span>
span {
content: "\002E";
}The symbol in different fonts
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana