❍ is the Unicode character SHADOWED WHITE CIRCLE, code point U+274D (decimal 10061) in the Dingbats block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ❍, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 9D 8D.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+274D |
| Decimal | 10061 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9D 8D |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 274D |
| UTF-32 | 0000274D |
| HTML decimal | ❍ |
| HTML hex | ❍ |
| CSS | \274D |
| JavaScript | \u274D |
| JSON | \u274D |
| Python | \u274D |
| Python by name | \N{SHADOWED WHITE CIRCLE} |
| Java, C# | \u274D |
| Rust, Swift | \u{274D} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u274D |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%9D%8D |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | SHADOWED WHITE CIRCLE |
| Code point | U+274D (decimal 10061) |
| Block | Dingbats (U+2700–U+27BF) |
| General category | So: Other symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Dingbats
- ❅ U+2745 Tight Trifoliate Snowflake
- ❆ U+2746 Heavy Chevron Snowflake
- ❇ U+2747 Sparkle
- ❈ U+2748 Heavy Sparkle
- ❉ U+2749 Balloon-Spoked Asterisk
- ❊ U+274A Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk
- ❋ U+274B Heavy Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk
- ❌ U+274C Cross mark
- ❎ U+274E Cross mark button
- ❏ U+274F Lower Right Drop-Shadowed White Square
- ❐ U+2750 Upper Right Drop-Shadowed White Square
- ❑ U+2751 Lower Right Shadowed White Square
- ❒ U+2752 Upper Right Shadowed White Square
- ❓ U+2753 Red question mark
- ❔ U+2754 White question mark
- ❕ U+2755 White exclamation mark
All 192 characters: Dingbats.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ❍?
- Use ❍ (decimal) or ❍ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+274D?
- E2 9D 8D (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%9D%8D.
- How do I write U+274D in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u274D. Python: \u274D.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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