●
Black Circle
- Unicode
- U+25CF
- Category
- Geometric
- HTML Entity
- ●
- CSS
- \25CF
The Black Circle (●) is a solid, filled geometric shape that frequently serves as a heavy bullet point in typography and list formatting. Originating from the Geometric Shapes Unicode block, it is highly versatile and commonly used to represent a recording button in media players, a black stone in the board game Go, or an active status indicator in digital interfaces.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9679
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "Black Circle"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 25cf
- HTML
- ● or ●
In Programming
In software development and UI design, the black circle is frequently used to represent masked characters in password fields or to indicate a selected state in custom radio buttons.
Tags
black dot
bullet
circle filled
disc
dot
filled circle
geometric
go game stone
heavy bullet
media record
record button symbol
shape
solid circle
solid dot
status indicator dot