→ 25CF ● black circle → 25EF ◯ large circle → 2B24 ⬤ black large circle → 2B55 ⭕ heavy large circle
Information
The red circle is the internet’s record light—one bold crimson dot that shouts attention, urgency, and we’re-live energy. People drop it to bullet a point with drama, to say periodt with finality, or to spotlight the crucial part of a text like a neon laser pointer. In meme culture, it’s the detective’s annotation: the infamous red circle that screams look here on conspiracy thumbnails and chaotic TikTok explainers. It also doubles as the dreaded notification badge vibe—the little anxiety dot living rent-free on your home screen—and as a universal status color for stop, busy, or do not disturb. Bonus associations: it nods to Japan’s Hinomaru (the red sun on a white field) and to Singapore’s nickname, the Little Red Dot.
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a glossy, perfectly round red disc with a subtle top‑left highlight and deeper shading toward the lower edge—clean, borderless, and almost candy-button shiny. You’ll see people stack a row of them for emphasis, slap one next to a date to scream deadline, or pair it with a camera emoji to mean we’re rolling. Sarcastically, a single lone dot can feel ominous or passive‑aggressive, like a silent alarm. It also works playfully or flirty as red‑hot energy, especially when teamed with flames or hearts. And when you need a stand‑in for a target, a bullseye moment, or a live broadcast ping, this tiny spotlight gets the job done.
Definition
Exactly what it looks like, a large red circle that can be used in many ways. The more creative people like to use this and other color shape emoji to form a larger picture, such as a flag. The color red. Used to add color or emphasis to communication.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
277 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:red_circle:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Large Red Circle
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Editorial Comment
So circular it looks like a shiny red sphere. iEmoji old name: Red Sphere.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Names & Annotations
LARGE RED CIRCLE Old name: LARGE CIRCLE-1 x (large circle - 25EF) x (black large circle - 2B24) Temporary Notes: Large circle (red). Disunified from ○ U+25CB and ◯ U+25EF due to source separation rule (Shift_JIS). Disunified from ARIB-9104 =U+2B58 HEAVY CIRCLE because of different semantics. Not "WHITE LARGE CIRCLE" because the counterpart to ⬤ U+2B24 BLACK LARGE CIRCLE is ◯ LARGE CIRCLE. Design Note: Same basic shape as for ⬤ U+2B24 BLACK LARGE CIRCLE.
Symbol Information
U+1F534 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B63
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#95 'New moon' 新月 U+E69C SJIS-F940 JIS-7847
KDDI
#40 大丸１ U+E54A SJIS-F766 JIS-7747
Softbank
#459 #old205 ボタン１ 「botan１」 U+E219 SJIS-F7B9
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e219
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E219
Decimal Code Point(s)
57881
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x88 0x99
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 88 99
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 210 231
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE219
UTF-16 Hex
e219
UTF-16 Dec
57881
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E219
UTF-32 Hex
E219
UTF-32 Dec
57881
Python Src
u"\uE219"
PHP Src
"\xee\x88\x99"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE219"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🔴
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🔴
Decimal HTML Entity
🔴
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🔴
Hex Code Point(s)
1f534
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F534
Decimal Code Point(s)
128308
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xB4
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 B4
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 264
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD34
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd34
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56628
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F534
UTF-32 Hex
01F534
UTF-32 Dec
128308
Python Src
u"\U0001F534"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\xb4"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD34"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
