Upper Half Black Circle

Unicode
U+25D3
Category
Geometric
HTML Entity
◓
CSS
\25D3
The Upper Half Black Circle symbol (◓) features a circle horizontally divided with a solid black top and an empty bottom. Originally added to Unicode's Geometric Shapes block for technical diagrams and phase indicators, it is often used in typography to represent contrast or partial completion. Across social media and gaming communities, it is widely recognized and used as a minimalist text representation of a Poké Ball.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+9683
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search "upper half black circle"
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then 25d3
HTML
◓

In Programming

This symbol is occasionally used in terminal-based user interfaces (TUIs) to build custom progress indicators or as a Harvey ball to denote a "half-complete" status in data tables.

Tags

contrast geometric half circle top half circle top filled pie chart pokeball pokemon pokemon text art poké ball symbol split text pokeball upper half filled upper semicircle

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