Technical information

Symbol
NameDotted circle
Unicode numberU+25CC
CategoryCircle
DescriptionThe Unicode character ◌, or U+25CC, is known as "Dotted Circle". It belongs to the "Geometric Shapes" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic symbol that represents a circle consisting of small dots. Its primary usage is in typography to display combining characters, as well as in mathematical notation and diagramming. The dotted circle provides a visible platform for diacritics or marks that would normally modify a base character, allowing these marks to be displayed in isolation.

Encoding

HTML Entity◌
HTML Entity (hex)◌
URL Escape Code%E2%97%8C
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x97 0x8C
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010111:10001100
UTF-160x25CC
UTF-320x000025CC

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u25CC"
CSS Code\25CC
JavaScript"\u25CC"
Perl\x{25CC}
Python 2u"\u25CC"
Python 3\u25CC
Ruby\u{25CC}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ◌ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9676;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\25CC";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References