U+FFEE "￮" Halfwidth White Circle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFEE "￮" Halfwidth White Circle is a typographic symbol belonging to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed to occupy half the width of a standard fullwidth character for compatibility with legacy East Asian text layouts and monospaced fonts. It represents a hollow or white circle, typically used as a placeholder, a marking symbol, or a component in visual patterns and diagrams, particularly in contexts where narrow spacing is required. This character is distinct from its fullwidth counterpart, U+25CB, and is often employed in terminal interfaces, retro computing, or CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text to maintain consistent character alignment without expanding line length.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFEE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth White Circle |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "○" U+25CB White Circle |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFEE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFEE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffee |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Halfwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "○" U+25CB White Circle |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "○" U+25CB White Circle |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |