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The Universal Character Set

For technical reasons, the GREEK ANO TELEIA (U+0387) also redirects here.
Unicode name	MIDDLE DOT
Latin-1 Supplement	U+00B7

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Symbol 1.1.1 Usage notes 1.1.2 See also 2 Greek 2.1 Symbol 3 Latin 3.1 Symbol 4 Mandarin 4.1 Symbol 4.2 Usage notes

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1. (mathematics) The product operator.

   7 · 8 = 56

2. (mathematics, vectors) The dot product operator.

   (1,2,5) · (3,4,−1) = 6

3. (Gregg shorthand) the letter a

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• (Gregg shorthand, letter a): · (“‘dot’”) is the shorthand form of a in Centennial, Series 90, DJS, Simplified, Anniversary, and Pre-Anniversary shorthand.

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Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( ⟨ ⟩ ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )

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· (U+0387)

1. ;    the Greek semicolon

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·

1. used to indicate a word boundary.

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·

1. A space or word break, indicating where one word ends and where the next begins.

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Not used in general. Used in some foreign proper names to separate first and last name, e.g. trad. 巴拉克・奥巴马, simpl. 巴拉克・奧巴馬 (pinyin: Bālākè Àobāmǎ) or sometimes to separate titles of books from chapters or similar, e.g. 《青少年文库·傲慢与偏见》. Is used similar to the Japanese symbol ·.