Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc.
"Middot" redirects here. For the religious tractate, see Middot (Talmud).
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Interpunct
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modifier letter middot
hyphenation point
IPA triangular half colon
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An interpunct⟨·⟩, also known as an interpoint,[1]middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800CE.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages and is present in Unicode as U+00B7·MIDDLE DOT.
The multiplication dot (Unicode U+22C5⋅DOT OPERATOR) is frequently used in mathematical and scientific notation, and it may differ in appearance from the interpunct.
^Catich, Edward (1991). The Origin of the Serif: Brush Writing and Roman Letters. Des Moines, Iowa: Saint Ambrose University Catich Gallery. ISBN 978-0-9629740-1-4.
rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. An interpunct ⟨·⟩, also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or...
vertical line, and in manuscripts a single (·), double (:), or triple (⫶) interpunct (dot) was used to divide words. This practice was found in Phoenician...
"キャサリン・ゼタ゠ジョーンズ". Occasionally, the hyphen too may be represented as an interpunct (・), in which case no distinction is made between hyphens and spaces....
confuse ⟨ll⟩ /ʎ/ with a geminated ⟨l⟩ /ll/, Catalan uses a middle dot (interpunct or punt volat in Catalan) in between ⟨ŀl⟩. For example exceŀlent ("excellent")...
dot. It is sometimes called a baseline dot to distinguish it from the interpunct (or middle dot). The full stop symbol derives from the Greek punctuation...
variant of ⟨H⟩ found in Roman Gaul. The primary mark of punctuation was the interpunct, which was used as a word divider, though it fell out of use after 200...
syl-la-bi-fi-ca-tion. Various British and North American dictionaries use an interpunct, sometimes called a "middle dot" or "hyphenation point", for this purpose...
hypodiastolḗ, lit. 'lower separation [mark]'), also known as a diastole, was an interpunct developed in late Ancient and Byzantine Greek texts before the separation...
also used in many orthographies and transcriptions; for example ạ ◌·◌ – interpunct is used in the Catalan ela geminada (l·l) tittle, the superscript dot...
roles owing to its conflation with the former hypodiastole, a curved interpunct used to disambiguate certain homonyms. As such, the comma functions as...
kalama, characters inside a cartouche can be followed by interpuncts or dots, where each interpunct represents the next mora of the word, and a colon represents...
multiplication) U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT (·, ·, ·) (the interpunct, may be easier to type than the dot operator) U+2297 ⊗ CIRCLED TIMES (⊗...
but apices were sometimes used to distinguish length in vowels and the interpunct was used at times to separate words. The first line of Catullus 3 ("Mourn...
diaeresis (trèma) ¨ found on ï, ü. The cedilla (cedilha) ¸ found under ç. The interpunct (ponch interior, punt interior) · found between two consecutive consonants:...
ISO-IR-96 and omitting the East Asian style comma (､) and full stop (｡), the interpunct (･) and the small kana), in addition to a set (registered as ISO-IR-95)...
shown simply as blank space; in other cases they may be represented by an interpunct or other symbols. Many different characters (described below) could be...
not encoded. The usual workaround was to use an (stand-alone; spaced) interpunct (U+00B7, ·) or less commonly the combining character dot above (U+0307)...
used in typewritten material and its use was not banned, although the interpunct (a.k.a. decimal point, point or mid dot) was preferred as a decimal separator...
character (e.g. ȧ, ạ, İ, Ċ, ċ, etc.), usually to indicate sound mutation Interpunct (·) also known as an "interpoint", "middle dot", "middot", "centered dot"...
numerals. Ancient Greek text did not mark word division with spaces or interpuncts, instead running the words together (scripta continua). In the Hellenistic...
right of a decimal separator, the appearance of which (e.g., a period, an interpunct (·), a comma) depends on the locale (for examples, see Decimal separator)...
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