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U+26AB · MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE

Black Circle

  • CodepointU+26AB
  • NameMEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE
  • Emoji nameblack circle
  • Decimal9899
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version4.1 (2005)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+26AB (⚫) is MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 4.1 (2005).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “black circle”, in the Symbols group, subgroup geometric. It displays as a colour emoji by default.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ⚫

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9A AB3 bytes
UTF-1626AB1 code unit
UTF-32000026AB4 bytes
HTML decimal⚫
HTML hex⚫
CSS\26ABin content: "…"
JavaScript\u26AB
JSON\u26AB
Python\u26AB
Python\N{MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE}by name
Java / C#\u26AB
C / C++\u26ABuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{26AB}
Go\u26AB
Ruby\u26AB
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9899)
URL-encoded%E2%9A%ABpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+26A5⚥Male and Female Sign U+26A6⚦Male with Stroke Sign U+26A7⚧Male with Stroke and Male and Female Sign U+26A8⚨Vertical Male with Stroke Sign U+26A9⚩Horizontal Male with Stroke Sign U+26AA⚪White Circle U+26AC⚬Medium Small White Circle U+26AD⚭Marriage Symbol U+26AE⚮Divorce Symbol U+26AF⚯Unmarried Partnership Symbol U+26B0⚰Coffin U+26B1⚱Funeral Urn