Black circle

Meaning and uses

A solid circle. It works as a large bullet, a status dot or a filled option in plain text menus.

Unicode details

● is the Unicode character named BLACK CIRCLE, code point U+25CF, in the Geometric Shapes block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ●

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 25CF and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ●.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “black circle”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 25cf, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ●. In a CSS content property, use "\25CF".