The blue circle is the internet’s calm, cool color swatch—part mood ring, part team jersey. People drop it in texts to say “I’m feeling blue,” to vibe-check a post with chill/ocean energy, or to rep anything that’s, well, literally blue—school colors, sports teams, K‑pop lightstick oceans, you name it. It doubles as a clean, minimalist bullet point, and sometimes shows up as a playful stand‑in for the infamous “blue dot” of unread messages and notifications. In meme land, it can hint at buffering/“please wait,” or serve as the icy reaction to a hot take.
On Apple devices, the emoji appears as a glossy, royal‑to‑azure filled circle with a soft top‑left highlight and a subtle shadow that makes it look slightly beveled—no face, no outline, just pure spherical satisfaction. Because blue screams calm and trust, it gets used for water/sky aesthetics, “cool tone” mood boards, and corporate‑safe vibe checks. It also has a legit real‑world claim to fame: the blue circle is the global symbol for diabetes awareness, especially seen around World Diabetes Day each November. And in the culture wars of color, it can nod to “blue states” in the U.S. or any club whose brand kit leans navy, cobalt, or electric blue.
Definition
Exactly what it looks like, a large blue 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 blue. Used to add color or emphasis to communication.
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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.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
303 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
:large_blue_circle:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Large Blue Circle
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Editorial Comment
Yes, it's a large blue circle. Not much to say about this one.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Names & Annotations
LARGE BLUE CIRCLE Old name: LARGE CIRCLE-2 x (large circle - 25EF) x (heavy large circle - 2B55) Temporary Notes: Large circle (blue). disunified from U+25CF due to source separation rule (Shift_JIS). Design Note: Same basic shape as for ⬤ U+2B24 BLACK LARGE CIRCLE.
Symbol Information
U+1F535 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B64
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#95 'New moon' 新月 U+E69C SJIS-F940 JIS-7847
KDDI
#41 大丸２ U+E54B SJIS-F767 JIS-7748
Softbank
#463 #old206 ボタン２ 「botan２」 U+E21A SJIS-F7BA
Emoji Character Encoding Data
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)
1f535
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F535
Decimal Code Point(s)
128309
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xB5
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 B5
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 265
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD35
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd35
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56629
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F535
UTF-32 Hex
01F535
UTF-32 Dec
128309
Python Src
u"\U0001F535"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\xb5"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD35"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
