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U+25E0 · UPPER HALF CIRCLE

Upper Half Circle

CodepointU+25E0
NameUPPER HALF CIRCLE
Decimal9696
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 widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 97 A0`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`25E0`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000025E0`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`◠`
HTML hex	`◠`
CSS	`\25E0`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u25E0`
JSON	`\u25E0`
Python	`\u25E0`
Python	`\N{UPPER HALF CIRCLE}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u25E0`
C / C++	`\u25E0`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{25E0}`
Go	`\u25E0`
Ruby	`\u25E0`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(9696)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%97%A0`	percent-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.

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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →

U+25DA◚Upper Half Inverse White Circle U+25DB◛Lower Half Inverse White Circle U+25DC◜Upper Left Quadrant Circular Arc U+25DD◝Upper Right Quadrant Circular Arc U+25DE◞Lower Right Quadrant Circular Arc U+25DF◟Lower Left Quadrant Circular Arc U+25E1◡Lower Half Circle U+25E2◢Black Lower Right Triangle U+25E3◣Black Lower Left Triangle U+25E4◤Black Upper Left Triangle U+25E5◥Black Upper Right Triangle U+25E6◦White Bullet