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U+25EF · LARGE CIRCLE

Large Circle

  • CodepointU+25EF
  • NameLARGE CIRCLE
  • Decimal9711
  • 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+25EF (◯) is LARGE 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 AF3 bytes
UTF-1625EF1 code unit
UTF-32000025EF4 bytes
HTML named◯named character reference
HTML named◯named character reference
HTML decimal◯
HTML hex◯
CSS\25EFin content: "…"
JavaScript\u25EF
JSON\u25EF
Python\u25EF
Python\N{LARGE CIRCLE}by name
Java / C#\u25EF
C / C++\u25EFuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{25EF}
Go\u25EF
Ruby\u25EF
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9711)
URL-encoded%E2%97%AFpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Geometric Shapes

All in block →
U+25E9◩Square with Upper Left Diagonal Half Black U+25EA◪Square with Lower Right Diagonal Half Black U+25EB◫White Square with Vertical Bisecting Line U+25EC◬White Up-Pointing Triangle with Dot U+25ED◭Up-Pointing Triangle with Left Half Black U+25EE◮Up-Pointing Triangle with Right Half Black U+25F0◰White Square with Upper Left Quadrant U+25F1◱White Square with Lower Left Quadrant U+25F2◲White Square with Lower Right Quadrant U+25F3◳White Square with Upper Right Quadrant U+25F4◴White Circle with Upper Left Quadrant U+25F5◵White Circle with Lower Left Quadrant