U+25CF Black Circle
U+25CF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+25CF behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “filled circle” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: circle.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Geometric Shapes is a Unicode block of 96 symbols at code point range U+25A0–25FF.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 9679 |
UTF-8 | E2 97 8F |
UTF-16 | 25 CF |
UTF-32 | 00 00 25 CF |
URL-Quoted | %E2%97%8F |
HTML hex reference | ● |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â— |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 DC |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 FC |
LATEX | \ding{108} |
AGL: Latin-5 | uni25CF |
Adobe Glyph List | H18533 |
Adobe Glyph List | blackcircle |
digraph | 0M |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
BLACK CIRCLE | |
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Geometric Shapes | |
Other Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Ambiguous | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
None | |
not a number | |
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