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U+25CF · BLACK CIRCLE

Black Circle

  • CodepointU+25CF
  • NameBLACK CIRCLE
  • Decimal9679
  • 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+25CF (●) is BLACK 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 8F3 bytes
UTF-1625CF1 code unit
UTF-32000025CF4 bytes
HTML decimal●
HTML hex●
CSS\25CFin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25CF
JSON\u25CF
Python\u25CF
Python\N{BLACK CIRCLE}by name
Java / C#\u25CF
C / C++\u25CFuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25CF}
Go\u25CF
Ruby\u25CF
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9679)
URL-encoded%E2%97%8Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25C9◉Fisheye U+25CA◊Lozenge U+25CB○White Circle U+25CC◌Dotted Circle U+25CD◍Circle with Vertical Fill U+25CE◎Bullseye U+25D0◐Circle with Left Half Black U+25D1◑Circle with Right Half Black U+25D2◒Circle with Lower Half Black U+25D3◓Circle with Upper Half Black U+25D4◔Circle with Upper Right Quadrant Black U+25D5◕Circle with All But Upper Left Quadrant Black