U+25CE Bullseye
U+25CE was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Geometric Shapes in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+25CE forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “concentric circles” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: circle, circles, concentric, double, target.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The bullseye or bull's eye has, since 1833, been the name for the center of a target and, by extension, since 1857, has been given to any throw, toss, or shot that hits the center.
In further development, success in an endeavor in which there is such inherent difficulty that most people are far more likely to choose, do, or identify something that is either unfortunately only close to or dismissively far from the ideal or necessary thing to choose can be called "hitting the bull's eye."
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9678 |
| UTF-8 | E2 97 8E |
| UTF-16 | 25 CE |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 25 CE |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%97%8E |
| HTML hex reference | ◎ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â—Ž |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A1 B7 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A1 B7 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 9D |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A1 DD |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A1 B7 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 FD |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 FD |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 FD |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A1 DD |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A1 F2 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A1 F2 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A1 F2 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 21 72 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 21 5D 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 6D |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 9D |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 9D |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 9D |
| Adobe Glyph List | bullseye |
| digraph | 0o |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BULLSEYE | |
| — | |
| Geometric Shapes | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Bullseye | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullseye | |
| Bullseye | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullseye | |
| Bullseye | |
| Bullseye | |
| Bullseye | |
| Bullseye | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullseye | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Bullseye | |
| Yes | |
| Bullseye | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bullseye | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Bullseye | |
| U |