Every bullet point you can paste into a list — the standard round bullet, square and diamond markers, triangles, and pointing specials. Each cell shows the character with its Unicode name; click any bullet to copy it.
The standard bullet • and its round relatives — including the middle dot, which is a separator rather than a list marker.
Geometric markers for sub-levels and variety — squares, diamonds, and the triangles that double as expand indicators.
Rare and expressive markers — hyphen and horizontal bullets, stars, arrows, and the printer's pointing hand.
Click any character to copy it, or use the section buttons to copy groups.
The bullet • (U+2022) is the standard list marker of digital text — the exact character word processors insert when you click the list button — and it sits in the General Punctuation block alongside its siblings, the triangular bullet ‣ (U+2023) and the hyphen bullet ⁃ (U+2043). It is easy to confuse with two look-alikes: the middle dot · (U+00B7), an interpunct inherited from Latin-1 that is smaller and used in Catalan spelling (col·legi), dictionary syllable breaks, and separators like "Home · About · Contact"; and the bullet operator ∙ (U+2219), a mathematical symbol. For lists, use the true bullet — it is the size readers expect and the one screen readers announce as a bullet.
The biggest real-world use for pasted bullets is text fields that strip formatting. LinkedIn's About and Experience sections discard rich-text lists, but bullet characters are just text, so pasting • before each line recreates a clean list that survives saving. The same trick works in plain-text resume uploads, job-application forms, YouTube descriptions, Instagram bios, and email signatures. A common pattern: • for top-level points, ◦ or ▪ for sub-points, and ➤ or ‣ when you want a more directive look. Recruiters read millions of these — the plain • comes across as professional formatting, while novelty markers like ☞ are better saved for personal pages.
The shape bullets come from the Geometric Shapes block — small squares ▪ ▫, full squares ■ □, diamonds ◆ ◇, and the pointing triangles ▸ ▹ ► that double as expand-and-collapse indicators. The rare horizontal bullets ⁌ and ⁍ (black leftwards and rightwards bullet) were encoded for legacy print formats, and ☞ is a manicule — the pointing hand that printers set in book margins for five centuries before it became a novelty list marker. All of these are ordinary text characters that inherit font color and size, which is exactly why they survive in places where HTML lists and rich formatting get stripped or restyled.
LinkedIn strips rich-text formatting, so a list made with an editor's list button will not survive — but pasted bullet characters will. Copy •, paste it at the start of each line in your About, Experience, or recommendation text, and add a space after it. The same approach works in headlines and in the plain-text fields of most job-application systems.
Size and purpose. The bullet • (U+2022) is a list marker, sized to be seen at a glance. The middle dot · (U+00B7) is an interpunct — punctuation used in Catalan (col·legi), in dictionaries to mark syllable breaks, and as a separator in navigation menus ("Home · About · Contact"). Swapping one for the other looks subtly wrong in both jobs.
The standard • is the safe choice: every applicant-tracking system, font, and PDF renderer handles it, and recruiters read it as normal formatting. ▪ and ◦ work well as second-level markers. Decorative choices like ★, ☞, or ➤ read as personality — fine on a portfolio site, risky on a resume that automated systems will flatten into plain text.
Yes — bullets are ordinary Unicode text, so they survive anywhere text does: Instagram and TikTok bios, YouTube descriptions, X threads, Discord profiles, email signatures, and SMS. That is exactly why people paste them — those fields offer no list-formatting button at all. The only catch is line breaks: some bio fields need the list composed elsewhere and pasted whole.
On Windows, hold Alt and type 7 on the numeric keypad (or Alt+0149) to get •. On a Mac, press Option+8. In Google Docs and Word you rarely need either, since typing * or - followed by a space auto-converts into a list — but in plain-text fields, the keystroke or a pasted character is the only way.