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U+25CB · WHITE CIRCLE

White Circle

  • CodepointU+25CB
  • NameWHITE CIRCLE
  • Decimal9675
  • BlockGeometric Shapes (U+25A0–U+25FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+25CB (○) is WHITE CIRCLE, a symbol in the Geometric Shapes block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ○

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 97 8B3 bytes
UTF-1625CB1 code unit
UTF-32000025CB4 bytes
HTML named○named character reference
HTML decimal○
HTML hex○
CSS\25CBin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25CB
JSON\u25CB
Python\u25CB
Python\N{WHITE CIRCLE}by name
Java / C#\u25CB
C / C++\u25CBuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25CB}
Go\u25CB
Ruby\u25CB
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9675)
URL-encoded%E2%97%8Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+00B0°Degree Sign U+02DA˚Ring Above U+2218∘Ring Operator U+25E6◦White Bullet U+2E30⸰Ring Point
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Characters built on ○

U+FFEE￮Halfwidth White Circle
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25C5◅White Left-Pointing Pointer U+25C6◆Black Diamond U+25C7◇White Diamond U+25C8◈White Diamond Containing Black Small Diamond U+25C9◉Fisheye U+25CA◊Lozenge U+25CC◌Dotted Circle U+25CD◍Circle with Vertical Fill U+25CE◎Bullseye U+25CF●Black Circle U+25D0◐Circle with Left Half Black U+25D1◑Circle with Right Half Black