U+2BCA "⯊" Top Half Black Circle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⯊
U+2BCA "⯊" Top Half Black Circle is a typographic symbol depicting the upper semicircle of a filled circle, leaving the bottom half transparent or white. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block and is often used in graphic design, diagrams, or as a visual indicator in user interfaces, particularly for representing partial filling, progress, or binary states where a top half denotes an active or selected portion. Its shape contrasts with its counterpart, U+2BCB Bottom Half Black Circle, allowing for complementary visual representation in paired contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2BCA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Top Half Black Circle |
| 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 0xAF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2BCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002BCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2bca |
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 |