U+1F788 "🞈" Very Heavy White Circle Unicode Character

U+1F788 "🞈" Very Heavy White Circle is a typographic symbol belonging to the Geometric Shapes Extended block, depicting a thick, hollow circle with a robust outline that is significantly bolder than a standard white circle. This character is often used in visual design, diagrams, and digital interfaces where a prominent, empty circular marker is needed to emphasize a point, indicate an option, or create a clear visual distinction without the weight of a filled shape. Unlike emoji, it is intended as a neutral, abstract graphic element, primarily for technical or decorative purposes rather than conveying human emotion or cultural meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F788
Version Added	7.0
Name	Very Heavy White Circle
Block	Geometric Shapes Extended
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🞈
HTML Hex Encoding	🞈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x9E 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF88
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F788
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf88

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other