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Bullet

This page is about the meaning, origin and characteristic of the symbol, emblem, seal, sign, logo or flag: Bullet.

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In typography, a bullet ( • ) is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list

It is likely that the name originated from the resemblance of the traditional circular bullet symbol (•) to an actual bullet.

The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond, arrow, etc., and typical word processor software offer a wide selection of shapes and colours. Several regular symbols are conventionally used in ASCII-only text or another environments where bullet characters are not available, such as * (asterisk), - (hyphen), . (period), and even o (lowercase O). Of course, when writing by hand, bullets may be drawn in any style.

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Graphical characteristics:
Symmetric, Closed shape, Monochrome, Contains curved lines, Has no crossing lines.

Category: Language Symbols.

Bullet is part of the Punctuation group.

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    What keystrokes are needed to produce a”bullet” symbol on the screen?
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