Bullet
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0149 on the numeric keypad to insert bullet.
- Alt code
- Alt+0149
- HTML entity
- •
- Unicode
- U+2022
About this symbol
The bullet takes its name from the French boulette, a little ball. Before it, printers marked important points with a manicule, a small pointing hand ☞.
The phrase “bullet point” is younger than most people guess: its first known appearance in print is in the computing magazine Datamation in 1983. The same dot hides the letters of a password as you type it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BULLET
- Also called
- Black small circle
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Punctuation and Typography Marks chart for related characters.