White circle Emoji

Symbols

A clean, white circular shape with a thin border. It is a plain, neutral graphic that works well as a placeholder or a bullet point in lists.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent an empty slot, a neutral state, or the 'white team' in competitive gaming contexts. It is often contrasted with the ⚫ black circle to denote binary choices, voting options, or toggle switches.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this shape was added to standard character sets to support basic geometric mapping and to complete the set of colored circular markers used in digital interfaces for status indicators and UI design.

Details

Glyph

⚪

Unicode

U+26AA

Shortcode

:emoji_u26aa:

HTML Entity

⚪

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Symbols

Subcategory geometric

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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