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Glyph for U+26AB
Source: Noto Emoji

U+26AB Medium Black Circle

U+26AB was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. It belongs to the block U+2600 to U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+26AB forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The CLDR project calls this character “black circle” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: black, circle, geometric.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0E Variation Selector-15: ⚫︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Circle symbol may refer to (in ascending order of size, approximately):

  • ˚, ring diacritic
  • , white bullet
  • , function composition
  • °, degree symbol
  • º, masculine ordinal indicator
  • o, music symbol denoting either a diminished triad or diminished seventh chord
  • o, superscript lowercase letter o
  • , white circle Unicode symbol
  • , dotted circle
  • oοо, lowercase vowel letters in the Latin, Greek (omicron), and Cyrillic alphabets
  • 𐤏, Semitic/Phoenician letter Ayin, the ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Cyrillic etc. letters
  • OΟО, uppercase vowel letters in the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets
  • , heavy circle Unicode symbol
  • , O mark, large circle Unicode symbol

Representations

System Representation
9899
UTF-8 E2 9A AB
UTF-16 26 AB
UTF-32 00 00 26 AB
URL-Quoted %E2%9A%AB
HTML hex reference ⚫
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake âš«
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 37 B3 33

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 4.1 (2005)
Unicode Name (na) MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+26AB Medium Black Circle
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U