Red Circle

Grande circulo enrojecido

→ 25CF ●  black circle → 25EF ◯  large circle → 2B24 ⬤  black large circle → 2B55 ⭕  heavy large circle

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.

Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. 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.
2. 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)	161 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)