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
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory geometric
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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