Symbol Reference

Bullet Point (•)

The dot that opens a list item.

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Where you'll actually meet it

The bullet's natural home is a formatted list, but its most common use online is as a workaround — pasted manually at the start of a line in a bio, caption or comment box that strips list formatting. It also works as an inline separator between short items in a byline or metadata row, where a comma would read as part of the content rather than as punctuation between fields.

Look-alike variants

The middle dot · (U+00B7) is a smaller separator used between words, the triangular bullet ‣ (U+2023) and white bullet ◦ (U+25E6) mark nested list levels. Choose by list depth rather than by appearance.

Using bullets in plain text

Apps that strip list formatting — bios, captions, comment boxes — will still keep a literal bullet character, which is why pasting • at the start of a line is the usual workaround.

A grid of 12 bullet point (•) shown as individual copyable characters.

Questions

Why does my bullet disappear when I paste?

Because the app stripped list formatting rather than the character. If you pasted a formatted list, the structure is discarded; if you pasted a literal bullet character it survives, which is exactly why pasting the character manually is the usual workaround.

Should bulleted items end with a full stop?

Only if they are complete sentences, and then consistently across the whole list. Fragments take no terminal punctuation. Mixing the two within one list is the most common formatting error in bulleted copy.

How to type it

Code point	`U+2022`
HTML entity	`•`
Windows	Alt + 0149 on the numeric keypad
macOS	Option + 8
Linux	Ctrl + Shift + U, then 2022, then Enter or Space

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