Yellow circle Emoji

Symbols

A vibrant, solid yellow circle that stands out for its high visibility. Unlike shaded or 3D-styled icons, this version acts as a flat, bold graphic element.

Usage Context

Used to represent the color yellow, denote a sun, highlight a specific item, or serve as a placeholder for a status indicator. It is frequently sent alongside the 🔴 or 🔵 to contrast colors or create a bright visual pattern in social media posts.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as part of the initial expansion of geometric shapes to help standardize visual markers for operating systems, which were moving toward cleaner, flatter UI designs to match modern touchscreens.

Details

Glyph

🟡

Unicode

U+1F7E1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f7e1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDFE1;

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