◌
Dotted Circle
- Unicode
- U+25CC
- Category
- Geometric
- HTML Entity
- ◌
- CSS
- \25CC
The Dotted Circle symbol (◌) is primarily used in typography and computing as a visual placeholder. It illustrates the relative position of a base character when displaying combining diacritical marks, such as standalone accents or vowels in complex scripts like Devanagari. Outside of font rendering, it occasionally serves as a generic placeholder for missing data or a simple geometric outline.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 9676
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "dotted circle"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 25CC
- HTML
- ◌
In Programming
In software development, font design, and text rendering, the dotted circle acts as a neutral base character to test and demonstrate how combining marks stack or position themselves in complex text shaping.
Tags
accent placeholder
combining
combining mark base
dashed circle
dashed ring
diacritical placeholder
dotted circle unicode
dotted ring
dotted ring symbol
font design placeholder
geometric
linguistics symbol
phonetics circle
placeholder
placeholder circle