White circle
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- Shortcode
:white_circle:- Unicode
U+26AA- HTML
⚪- CSS
\26AA- JavaScript
"\u{26AA}"- URL
%E2%9A%AA
What ⚪ means
A solid white dot. It works as a light bullet, a white color marker, or a sign of blank and neutral.
People use ⚪ for white-themed items, neutral options in polls, and status sets where it means off or inactive. It pairs with ⚫ for contrast. On a white background it can almost vanish.
Facts
White 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 :white_circle:. People also look for it with words like “circle”, “geometric”, or “white”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.