Technical information

Symbol
NameMessage waiting
Unicode numberU+0095
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement1. C1 controls
DescriptionThe Unicode character •, or U+0095, is known as "Message Waiting". It is part of the "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" block and is categorized under the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. This character is typically not visible in normal text or document display but is rather used as a control character for device control or text formatting purposes in some environments. However, when rendered visibly, it often appears as a small, solid black circle, similar in appearance to a bullet point.

Encoding

HTML Entity•
HTML Entity (hex)•
URL Escape Code%26%23149%3B
UTF-8 (hex)0x26 0x23 0x31 0x34 0x39 0x3B
UTF-8 (binary)1001100010001100110001001101000011100100111011
UTF-160x0095
UTF-320x00000095

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u0095"
CSS Code\0095
JavaScript"\u0095"
Perl\x{0095}
Python 2u"\u0095"
Python 3\u0095
Ruby\u{0095}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this • in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#149;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\0095";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References