U+26AB "⚫" Medium Black Circle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⚫
U+26AB "⚫" Medium Black Circle is a solid, filled circular symbol of a defined point size, classified as a geometric shape in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Symbols for Legacy Computing blocks and is often used in digital interfaces, lists, or data visualization to represent an active state, a confirmed item, a location marker, or simply as a typographic ornament. Its design is a simple, uniform black disc that provides a strong visual anchor without the detail of a smaller dot or the larger emoji-style circle, making it a versatile symbol for illustrating completeness, selection, or neutrality in text and graphic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26AB |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Medium Black Circle |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26ab |