Black Circle

Mediano circulo negro

• UI symbol for record function ⁓ 26AB FE0E  text style ⁓ 26AB FE0F  emoji style

A perfect circle.

Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
2. 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)	212 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)