Black circle Emoji

Symbols

A solid, dark, circular shape that stands out clearly against a white or light-colored background. It is a bold, high-contrast graphic used to draw the eye or create a hard stop in a line of text.

Usage Context

This icon acts as a heavy bullet point for lists, a placeholder for an off-switch, or a way to represent a black ball in games like billiards. It is frequently paired with ⚪ to represent light and dark themes, or used alongside ⚫ and 🔴 to indicate status levels.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the broader effort to unify geometric shapes across digital platforms. It stems from early computer font sets that required simple, non-alphanumeric characters to help organize interfaces and draw user attention.

Details

Glyph

⚫

Unicode

U+26AB

Shortcode

:emoji_u26ab:

HTML Entity

⚫

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory geometric

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository