U+2BCB "⯋" Bottom Half Black Circle Unicode Character

U+2BCB "⯋" Bottom Half Black Circle is a typographic symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, representing a circle where the lower half is filled in black while the upper half remains empty or white. This glyph is often used in graphical contexts such as diagrams, schedules, or rating systems to indicate a partial state, like a half-completed task or a neutral or intermediate value in visual displays. It belongs to a set of half-filled circles that can serve as alternatives to more common half-circle or pie-chart symbols, and it is distinct from the top half black circle (U+2BCA) and other related geometric shapes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2BCB
Version Added	7.0
Name	Bottom 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 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2BCB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002BCB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2bcb

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