Large Circle HTML entity ◯

◯ is the HTML entity for Large Circle ◯ (U+25EF). Copy the decimal ◯ and hex ◯ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity
◯
Also written
◯
Code point
U+25EF
Unicode name
LARGE CIRCLE
Block
Geometric Shapes
Category
Other symbol (So)
Since
Unicode 1.1
Defined in
HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named◯Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal◯Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex◯Works in HTML and XML.
CSScontent: "\25EF";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript"\u25EF"Also valid in JSON.
Python"\u25ef"Python 3 string literal.
Python by name"\N{LARGE CIRCLE}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL%E2%97%AFPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytesE2 97 AF3 bytes.
UTF-1625EF1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&xcirc; writes U+25EF (Large Circle), a symbol from the Unicode Geometric Shapes block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Box drawing and block characters only line up in a monospaced font, such as inside <pre> or <code>.

The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).