Shadowed White Circle ❍

U+274D
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Symbol Meaning

Symbol U+274D depicts a perfect circle, not filled in the background. It has a heavy outline from the right side. The icon looks like a cylinder or a growing moon, some kind of a disk, casting a shadow.

A circle is traditionally considered to be the symbol of perfection, fulfillment, completion. Depending on the context, dingbat U+274D can be used in one of the meanings mentioned above, or as a simple decoration for posts. Its functions also include marking points in a list, dividing chapters and paragraphs, and making ornaments.

The symbol “Shadowed White Circle” is included in the “Miscellaneous” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Unicode Name Shadowed White Circle
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Miscellaneous
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 274D
Simple case change 274D
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Pattern_Syntax +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9D 8D 226 157 141 14851469 11100010 10011101 10001101
UTF-16BE 27 4D 39 77 10061 00100111 01001101
UTF-16LE 4D 27 77 39 19751 01001101 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 4D 0 0 39 77 10061 00000000 00000000 00100111 01001101
UTF-32LE 4D 27 00 00 77 39 0 0 1294401536 01001101 00100111 00000000 00000000

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