Black circle

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Shortcode: :black_circle:
Unicode: U+26AB
HTML: ⚫
CSS: \26AB
JavaScript: "\u{26AB}"
URL: %E2%9A%AB

What ⚫ means

A solid black dot. It works as a bullet, a dark color marker, or a full stop with weight.

People use ⚫ in color-coded lists, minimalist bios and black-and-white palettes. Next to ⚪ it can mean opposites, like a yes-and-no vote or day and night. In status sets it can mean offline.

Facts

Black circle ⚫ is an emoji in the symbols category, under geometric. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :black_circle:. People also look for it with words like “black”, “circle”, or “geometric”.