U+2B2F "⬯" White Vertical Ellipse Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⬯
U+2B2F "⬯" White Vertical Ellipse is a geometric symbol that appears as an empty, upright oval outline, similar to a vertically stretched circle or a white ellipse shape. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block in the Unicode standard, where it is used primarily for graphical representation in diagrams, flowcharts, or user interface elements rather than for linguistic text. Despite its simple design, this character is not widely supported in all fonts and may render as a placeholder square in environments lacking proper coverage for this specific glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2B2F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | White Vertical Ellipse |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⬯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⬯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xAC 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2B2F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002B2F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2b2f |
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 |