U+25EF Large Circle
U+25EF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Geometric Shapes in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
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+25EF 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 “large hollow circle” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: circle, large hollow circle, ring.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An O mark, also known as Marujirushi (丸印) in Japan and Gongpyo (공표(空標), ball mark) in Korea, is the name of the symbols "◯" or "⭕" used to represent affirmation in East Asia, similar to its Western equivalent of the checkmark. Its opposite is the X mark ("✗") or ("×").
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9711 |
| UTF-8 | E2 97 AF |
| UTF-16 | 25 EF |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 EF |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%97%AF |
| HTML hex reference | ◯ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â—¯ |
| HTML named entity | ◯ |
| HTML named entity | ◯ |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A2 FE |
| LATEX | \bigcirc |
| Adobe Glyph List | largecircle |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LARGE CIRCLE | |
| — | |
| Geometric Shapes | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Large Circle | |
| ✘ | |
| Large Circle | |
| Large Circle | |
| ✘ | |
| Large Circle | |
| Large Circle | |
| Large Circle | |
| Large Circle | |
| Large Circle | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Large Circle | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Large Circle | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Large Circle | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Large Circle | |
| U |