U+2689 "⚉" Black Circle with Two White Dots Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⚉
U+2689 "⚉" Black Circle with Two White Dots is a symbol found within the Miscellaneous Symbols block, visually defined as a solid black circle containing two small white dots. It is officially designated as a sign for the game of Go, where it represents a captured stone or a specific marker on the board. Beyond its primary usage in Go notation, the symbol has also been adopted in various digital contexts for representing targets, dual states, or binary pairings, and it shares a visual kinship with other gaming and astronomical icons. Its clean, contrasting design makes it effective for conveying concepts of duality or opposition within a single bounded entity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2689 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Black Circle with Two White Dots |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⚉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⚉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9A 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2689 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002689 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2689 |
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 |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |