• UI symbol for record function ⁓ 26AB FE0E text style ⁓ 26AB FE0F emoji style
Information
The black circle is the minimalist ninja of emojis: a solid, no-nonsense dot that says everything by almost saying nothing. People drop it to signal mood: dark, dramatic, mysterious, or “we’re going full night mode.” It’s the go-to for aesthetic separators in bios and captions, for bullet points with attitude, and for that heavy finality—like a supercharged period when you’re done arguing on the internet. One lonely ⚫ in a chat can read as deadpan, ominous ellipsis, or “I have entered the void, do not disturb.”
Pair it with a white circle to do yin-yang vibes, checkerboard aesthetics, or artsy spacing tricks. It shows up in memes as “my soul today: ⚫,” “brain: empty, thoughts: none,” or as a placeholder for blackout energy and eclipse drama. It’s also a sly way to say “offline” or “radio silence” without typing a single word. Not to be confused with the New Moon Face; there’s no sneaky smirk here—just pure, matte abyss.
On Apple/iOS, the black circle appears as a perfectly round, flat, matte-black disc with crisp edges—no outline, no shine, no face, just a clean geometric puck of darkness that pops on light backgrounds. Its size matches the other shape emojis, so it lines up neatly for lists, grids, or that ultra-minimal, designer-text look.
Definition
A perfect circle.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
452 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
:black_circle:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Medium Black Circle
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode Range
2600–26FF
Unicode Subcategory
Circles
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Stars, Asterisks and Snowflakes
Names & Annotations
MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE Temporary Notes: Small circle (blue)
Symbol Information
⚫ U+26AB unified (Unicode 4.1)
Proposal Identifier
e-B66
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#95 'New moon' 新月 U+E69C SJIS-F940 JIS-7847
KDDI
#24 小丸2 U+E53B SJIS-F757 JIS-7738
Softbank
#459 #old205 ボタン１ 「botan１」 U+E219 SJIS-F7B9
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 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)
26ab
Formal Unicode Notation
U+26AB
Decimal Code Point(s)
9899
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x9A 0xAB
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9A AB
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 232 253
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x26AB
UTF-16 Hex
26ab
UTF-16 Dec
9899
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000026AB
UTF-32 Hex
26AB
UTF-32 Dec
9899
Python Src
u"\u26AB"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x9a\xab"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u26AB"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
⚫️
UTF-8 Character Count
2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
⚫️
Decimal HTML Entity
⚫ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
⚫ ️
Hex Code Point(s)
26ab, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+26AB, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9899, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x9A 0xAB, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9A AB, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 232 253, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x26AB, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
26ab, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9899, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000026AB 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
26AB, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9899, 65039
Python Src
u"\u26AB\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x9a\xab\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u26AB\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
