Red circle Emoji

Symbols

A solid, bright red circular shape. Its appearance is bold and eye-catching, designed to stand out immediately against text or background elements.

Usage Context

Widely used to signal warnings, indicate errors, or mark an important alert that requires the reader's attention. It is also frequently used to represent a recording indicator, similar to the light on a camera or microphone. It is often paired with the ❌ or ⚠️ emojis to emphasize a negative status or a dangerous situation.

History

Adopted into Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the red circle was brought into the emoji set to mirror the common graphical icons used in early 2000s software design to denote 'stop' functions or critical system failures in user interfaces.

Details

Glyph

🔴

Unicode

U+1F534

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f534:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD34;

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.

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