U+2B55 Heavy Large Circle
U+2B55 was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as basic symbol for speed limit.
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. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2B55 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 CLDR project calls this character “hollow red circle” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: circle, large, o, red.
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
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 |
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Nº | 11093 |
UTF-8 | E2 AD 95 |
UTF-16 | 2B 55 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 2B 55 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%AD%95 |
HTML hex reference | ⭕ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â• |
alias | basic symbol for speed limit |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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5.2 (2009) | |
HEAVY LARGE CIRCLE | |
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Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A | |
Other Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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0 | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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Yes | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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wide | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
none | |
not a number | |
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