Shadowed White Circle ❍
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.
| 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 |