Bullet Point Symbols Copy and Paste

1. Pick round, square, triangular, or decorative list markers, or search by name or code point.

2. Click a marker meant for lists. For stars, hearts, and flourishes, use Aesthetic Symbols instead.

3. Paste in front of a line of text. In Word or Google Docs, native list formatting is often clearer than a pasted character.

Bullet point symbols are Unicode list markers. They are text characters rather than images or a font file. Decorative stars and ornaments belong on other collections; this page stays on markers you would put at the start of a line.

A bullet is a list marker: a character you place at the start of a line to show an item. The ordinary bullet • (U+2022) is the default in countless documents. ◦ (U+25E6 WHITE BULLET) is a hollow counterpart for a nested level. ‣ (U+2023 TRIANGULAR BULLET) points along the line and is common in plain-text outlines. ▪ and ▫ are small squares used the same way. Hyphen bullet ⁃ and middle-dot-like ∙ can look like punctuation, so they are easy to confuse with a hyphen-minus or a multiplication dot. Inverse and circled forms (◘, ⦿) are still list markers, just heavier. None of these creates a hanging indent or a live outline; they are characters, and spacing is up to you.

Word, Google Docs, and markdown editors already know how to make lists. In those tools, the built-in list control usually beats a pasted • because it handles indent, spacing, and “continue numbering” for you. Paste a Unicode bullet when you are in a plain-text surface that has no list command: a bio, a caption, a chat, a code comment, or an email that strips formatting. If you paste • into Docs, you may get a character in the flow rather than a real list item. If you copy a Docs list into Slack, you may lose the indent and keep only the marker—or lose the marker entirely. Test the round-trip when the list has to survive more than one app.

Decorative characters are not bullets just because they sit at the start of a line. Stars, hearts, flowers, and sparkles are ornaments; they live on Aesthetic Symbols so this picker does not become a dump of every cute prefix. A triangular ▶ can look like a bullet and also like a play button; on this board it is grouped as a triangular marker, but in an interface it may read as media. Middle dot · (U+00B7) is punctuation, not a list marker, and is not a substitute for •. Keep functional lists on • ◦ ‣ ▪ and similar, and use ornaments only when the line is decorative.

Input methods overlap with other symbol pages. Windows Win + . and macOS Character Viewer both find “bullet.” Alt+7 on the numeric keypad produces • on many Windows layouts. HTML offers • for •. In markdown, a leading hyphen or asterisk is syntax for a list, not the • character—the rendered HTML list-style may draw a disc that never existed in your source. What this page is not: it is not a word-processor list engine, not a nested-outline tool, and not a decorative-symbol pack. Copy a marker, paste it where plain text is all you have, and switch to Aesthetic Symbols when you want a flourish instead of a list.